Body of child thrown from bridge found

? A duck hunter on Saturday found the body of the youngest of four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, raising hopes that the other bodies will be recovered, a sheriff said.

A search for the children – ranging in age from a few months to 3 years – began Tuesday near the mouth of Mobile Bay after prosecutors said the father, Lam Luong, confessed.

About 9 a.m. Saturday, a duck hunter found the body of an infant about five miles west of the bridge in a marshy area.

“The inevitable nightmare we have feared has now been confirmed,” Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said. “We believe, certainly now, that the father of these children threw these children off the Dauphin Island bridge.”