The mother of the newborn baby boy flushed down a toilet
in China watched in secret as rescuers plucked him alive from a sewer
pipe.
The 22-year-old woman is believed to have raised the
initial alarm but only confessed to police after they searched her rented room
and found toys and blood-stained toilet paper, the Chinese state news agency
reported.
Police initially said they were treating the case of as
possible attempted homicide, but it was not immediately clear whether the mother
would face any criminal charges.
A police
officer said she had hidden her pregnancy and claimed the baby fell into the
lavatory after she unexpectedly gave birth. ‘The woman was on the scene during
the entire rescue process ... and admitted she was the mother when we asked
her.’
He said police were still
investigating whether she had any ‘malicious intentions’ before deciding on
charges.
The single woman, a tenant in the building, told police
she could not afford an abortion and secretly delivered the child Saturday
afternoon in the toilet.
She said the
newborn slipped into the sewer line and that she alerted her landlord of the
trapped baby after she could not pull the child out, Zhejiang News
said.
The landlord of the building
said there were no signs that the birth took place in the restroom and she had
not been aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.
But the mother
told police she cleaned up the toilet after the delivery and that she had
managed to hide her pregnancy by wearing loose clothes and tightly wrapping her
abdomen.
Nurse Zhang Songhe told the Daily Mail that the mother
of the baby was with him in hospital. ‘I don’t know the reason she abandoned the
baby.
‘We’re going to take care of the baby. We are not sure
when the baby can be discharged.’
She added: 'When
the baby arrived here, he was in critical condition.
'We suspect he
has a fracture in the top right section of his skull. But now everything has
been stabilized.'
Source: Daily
Mail UK
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