<DIV id=content-right><DIV class="blog-post noline"><H3>Child's body found in marsh</H3><H4>Posted by
<A href="http://blog.al.com/live/about.html">Katherine Sayre, Staff Reporter</A> January 12, 2008 11:13 AM</H4><DIV class=categories>Categories:
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A duck hunter found the body of small child in a marsh area of the Mississippi Sound this morning, likely one of four children allegedly thrown from the Dauphin Island bridge by their father, authorities said.
"The inevitable nightmare that we have feared has been confirmed," said Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran.
The decomposed body of a small child washed into a marsh area known as Point of Pines, about five miles west from where investigators had been searching on Friday. The hunter found the body at about 9 a.m.
Authorities would not identify the child's name or age.
Lam Luong, 37, of Irvington, is in jail without bail on four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of his four children: Ryan Phan, 3, Hannah Luong, 2, Lindsey Luong, 1, and Danny Luong, 4 months.
Police said Luong confessed to throwing the children from the 80-foot-tall two-lane bridge on Monday morning as an act of revenge against his wife, Kieu Phan, 23.
But Luong's attorney this week said Luong was pressured by police into making a false confession, and that he actually gave the children to two women he did not know.
Search crews in helicopters and boats have probed the waters of Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound for five days.
The children's family has been notified and chaplains were counseling them this morning. </DIV></DIV></DIV>