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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Did mother raise the alarm after flushing away her own baby? 22-year-old watched in secret as rescuers plucked newborn ALIVE from the toilet pipe
- Baby boy, believed to be a newborn, discovered beneath a toilet commode
- Firefighters removed section of pipe and doctors cut the infant free
- Emergency services called after woman heard cries coming from pipe
- The baby called 'number 59' after the number of his incubator.
By DAVID WILKES and PETER SIMPSON
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The mother of the newborn baby boy
flushed down a toilet in China watched in secret as rescuers
dramatically 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.
The two-day-old, 5lb boy has been temporarily named Baby 59 – the number of the incubator in which he lies with a fractured skull and severe bruising.
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In scenes captured on video and posted online, firemen desperately sawed away at the four-inch-wide pipe just below a ceiling in which the boy was trapped.
Baby 59¿s condition was said to be stable and he should recover, but his
discovery - head first in a toilet waste pipe - has succeeded in
outraging a country in which brutal acts against youngsters are a common
occurrence
Being nursed back to health: The abandoned baby boy is pictured being
fed in hospital after firefighters rescued him from a sewage pipe after
he was apparently flushed down a toilet in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province
Reunited: The baby boy's mother - believed to be a 22-year-old single
woman - has been found and is said to be with her baby in hospital
In scenes captured on video and posted
online, firemen desperately sawed away at the four-inch-wide pipe just
below a ceiling in which the boy was trapped.
The rescuers then rushed the section of
pipe to a hospital, where firemen and doctors alternately used pliers
and saws to take it apart.
The infant’s arms were pinned to his
side and when the pipe was prised away, he let out a long wail at the
Pujiang County People’s Hospital in Jinhua, eastern China. He was still
attached to the placenta.
Injured: A nurse said the baby boy - who weighs 6.2 pounds - suffered a fracture to his skull but is now in a stable condition
Staff at the Pujiang County People's Hospital in Jinhua, Zhejiang
Province, said well-wishers have visited the hospital with diapers, baby
clothes and powered milk for the child
Recovering: The baby boy has been nicknamed number 59 after the number of his incubator
Baby 59’s condition was said to be
stable and he should recover. But the incident has succeeded in
outraging a country in which brutal acts against youngsters are a common
occurrence.
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.
Harrowing: Firefighters work to free the unwanted baby from the pipe in Pujiang, Zhejiang Province, China
Fight for survival: The newborn baby was rescued by firefighters after being flushed down a toilet
At a public toilet on the fourth floor firefighters were able to hear
faint cries and, exploring further, spotted the baby's foot deep inside
the pipe
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.
Unbelievably, the baby survived the ordeal, which saw him having to be cut out of a pipe
Firefighters received a call from a landlady of a block of flats saying
that she thought a baby was trapped in a toilet pipe in the building as
she had heard it crying
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese people
took to Weibo – their version of Twitter – to vent their fury at the
mother, believed to be an unmarried 22-year-old.
News
of the rescue also prompted an outpouring of help from locals who came
to the hospital armed with nappies, baby clothes, powdered milk and even
offers to adopt the child.
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.'
The firefighters worked quickly to dismantle the pipe and rescue the trapped youngster, who was heard wailing
Firefighters gently carried away the section of pipe that contained the terrified baby
Residents living in a residential
building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang reported
the sound of a baby crying in the public restroom on Saturday.
The landlord of the building in Pujiang
county told Zhejiang News that it was unlikely the birth took place in
the restroom because there was no evidence of blood and she was not
aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.
The baby was stuck in an L-shaped portion of the sewage pipe with a diameter of about 10 centimeters (3 inches).
There are many reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often
shortly after birth, making this incident a distressing but common
occurrence
Doctors carefully cut around the sewage pipe to rescue the baby boy inside
The video shows rescuers sawing off a section of the pipe along a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom.
His eyes, face and body were covered in the filth of the pipe.
There are frequent reports in Chinese
media of babies being abandoned often shortly after birth, a problem
attributed variously to young mothers unaware they were pregnant, the
birth of an unwanted girl in a society which puts greater value on boys
or China’s strict family planning rules.
The case has been widely discussed on
China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo due to the graphic nature of the
footage, with calls for the parents to be severely punished.
Firefighters and doctors rescue an abandoned newborn baby boy by cutting
away a sewage pipe piece by piece, in this still image taken from
video, in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province May 25, 2013
People have angrily reacted to the news, demanding the parents be punished and denouncing their cruel act
The child is in a stable condition and the police are looking for his parents, Chinese state television reported
The abandoned child has been named Baby No 59 from the number of his incubator, according to reports
Nurses treat the baby, who was believed to be only a few days old when he was flushed away
'The parents who did this have hearts even filthier than that sewage pipe,' wrote one user.
It was not immediately clear how the
baby ended up in the toilet, but police said they were treating the case
as an attempted homicide.
The Pujiang county police bureau said on
its official microblog account that the boy's mother has been located
and that an investigation is ongoing, but gave no further details.
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