Lolo Hot Springs

32 year-old Francis Crowley was sentenced in Missoula District Court on Tuesday to 30 years in the Montana State Prison with 10 years suspended after abandoning his infant nephew in the wilderness near the Lolo Hot Springs Resort on July 7, 2018.

The five month-old baby miraculously rescued after being left in the woods near Lolo Hot Springs has been released from a local hospital.

32 year-old Francis Crowley, the man accused of crashing a vehicle in the woods near Lolo Hot Springs and abandoning a five month-old child buried under a pile of sticks, appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Tuesday.

Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy Ross Jessup and U.S. Forest Service Officer Nick Schultz were the two searchers who rescued that five month-old baby boy who had spent over nine hours buried under a pile of brush and sticks

Members of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office were called out Saturday night at approximately 8 p.m. for a male suspect who was acting strange in the Lolo Hot Springs area.