Missing Clackamas Child Dies After Being Found By Creek: Sheriff

OREGON CITY, OR — The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a child found by a creek near their home. The child was flown by Life Flight to a Portland hospital where doctors were unable to revive them.

Deputies along with officers from the Molalla Police Department were called to a house on South Union Mills Road on Tuesday morning because the child was missing.

After the child was finally found along the creek, there was an effort to save them but it was unsuccessful.

Deputies are now trying to figure out how the child ended up at the creek.

No information about how old the child was or whether the child was a boy or girl has been released.