A pro-life activist said he found it "horrifying" that children playing in a field could stumble upon dozens of fetuses packed in cardboard boxes.
"I find it horrifying that dead babies could disappear without anyone noticing," Jeff White, state director of Operation Rescue, said Sunday in a statement. "It makes me ask, what is happening to the 1.3 million children being killed each year in our nation's abortion clinics?"Officials at first said 30 fetuses were found, but coroner's officials later raised that figure to 34.
Coroner's officials were planning Monday to try to determine if any of the fetuses were at least 20 weeks old, meaning they possibly could have survived outside the womb. That would create the possibility of a criminal investigation, said San Bernardino County Deputy Coroner Gabriel Morales.
Children playing in a field discovered the first box Friday morning west of Highway 71, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Sheriff's deputies called to the scene found the other four boxes.