{"id":60170,"date":"2026-09-05T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-probe-after-child-dies-in-woodland-in-cheslyn-hay\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:53:07","slug":"police-probe-after-child-dies-in-woodland-in-cheslyn-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-probe-after-child-dies-in-woodland-in-cheslyn-hay\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe after child dies in woodland in Cheslyn Hay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A police investigation has been launched following the unexplained death of a child in woodland. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to reports of a child in cardiac arrest on land near Strawberry Lane, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, at about 08:45 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An air ambulance was sent to the scene, but the child was pronounced dead by paramedics a short time later, Staffordshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force, which has not confirmed the age of the child or any other details, is currently treating the death as unexplained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roads in the area were closed throughout the day while investigations took place and officers were expected to remain at the scene throughout the evening. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gmk8lmzzyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police investigation has been launched following the unexplained death of a child in woodland. Emergency services were called to reports of a child in cardiac arrest on land near Strawberry Lane, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, at about 08:45 BST on Saturday. An air ambulance was sent to the scene, but the child was pronounced dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[16611,2086,1017,14474,599,1327,7726],"class_list":["post-60170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-cheslyn","tag-child","tag-dies","tag-hay","tag-police","tag-probe","tag-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60172,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60170\/revisions\/60172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}