Two people were arrested Saturday afternoon after the discovery of an infant's body Friday night in a freezer in the East Toledo house they formerly rented, police said.

Kenisha Pruitt, 20, now of 2631 Scottwood Ave. and Antonio Cervantes, 18, of 5324 Rector St. are charged with child endangerment and were booked into the Lucas County jail pending arraignments in Toledo Municipal Court Monday morning.

Sgt. Joe Heffernan, a Toledo police spokesman, said more charges are possible against the pair once an autopsy is performed on the female infant's body.

Authorities said the landlord, identified in county records as Irene Gonzalez, was cleaning the house at 116 Paine Ave. after renters had moved out and found the frozen corpse in a freezer. The woman reportedly called police immediately.

Officers were sent to the house at 8 p.m. Friday and remained on the scene until about 3 a.m., a neighbor reported. Ms. Gonzalez, who was in the back yard at the house on Saturday afternoon, declined to comment.

Sergeant Heffernan said he did not know the infant's approximate age other than "very young."

According to the court affidavit signed by Toledo police Detective Lawrence Anderson, Ms. Pruitt and Mr. Cervantes had lived together at 116 Paine starting in November and "were currently in the process of moving out," with no other adults known to have lived there during the ensuing time.

Family members told police Ms. Pruitt was believed in November to be pregnant, but no birth was reported, the detective wrote.

The baby "appeared to have been a full-term birth," the affidavit said.

Dr. James Patrick, the Lucas County coroner, said an autopsy will be performed Monday, once the body has thawed out from refrigeration.

Dr. Patrick said that although freezing may distort some conditions that would be seen under a microscope, "most of your chemical stuff is preserved" if a body is frozen.

The coroner said the biggest challenge he may face is determining whether the child was born alive.

"Was this a live-born infant? That sometimes can be hard to determine, but we won't know until we do the autopsy," he said.

First Published April 14, 2012, 3:32 p.m.