A 15-year-old is facing charges for allegedly hiding the dead body of her own newborn child in her home in Brampton.

Peel Regional Police say they were alerted on Friday that a girl had given birth on Tuesday May 22, and not disclosed that fact to anyone at the time. Police then searched a Brampton residence and found a baby’s body there.

The teenager has been charged with indignity to a dead body and concealing the body of a child. Her name will not be released due to a provision of the Youth Criminal Justice Act protecting the identities of young persons facing criminal charges.

Peel police’s homicide bureau is investigating because the circumstances place the case under their mandate, but the infant’s cause of death — whether accidental or other — is still unknown, police say.

“There is no murder-related charges applied to this (at this point),” clarified Const. Bancroft Wright. “There’s an autopsy and that information will come through the autopsy.”

Police continue to investigate, and are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

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