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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