Baby found in sewer pipe in China

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I have just seen this on Sky News. The video showing the baby being cut free was heart breaking
What kind of person does that to a newborn? It still had the placenta attached. I'm shocked!
Sorry, can't link on phone.

Sorry, made it sound like the baby died. They saved it

I've just seen this as well, absolutely awful and heartbreaking. How could anyone do this. Thank god people heard his cries.

I'm absolutely sickened by this. They could have abandoned that unwanted baby somewhere it would be found but they flushed it away? Alive? Dear god.

Soooo sad. The placenta being attached may have saved him I guess. Poor baby. Hope he is adopted by a lovely family.

China has a horrible approach to babies due to the one child policy. Thousands of abandoned and killed babies just left in streets and rivers. There is a recent book about it.

omg poor little thing

How absolutely awful

I agree about the one child policy. A family is apparently entitled to one 'child license' which gives access to schools etc. Any other children born don't and can't exist. A friend of mine relayed a story about her brother who lived in China and heard of babies being taken away by secret police types in the night.

China has the highest rate of female suicide, globally - it isn't a stretch to see why .

and it's only the truely horrendous stories that even get reported - its so sad the number of babies thrown away in desperation. it's worse than the child 'not existing' most of the time - there are so many stories of very late forced abortions and losing their jobs and having to leave their whole lives behind if they have a second child - it makes me want to cry. isn't it crazy when this is actually a story of hope!

Was just about to start a thread on this story .

It seems neighbours heard the crying ... :-o

Horrific

but what's worse is I just saw PICTURES on THE DM

Yes I know the baby survived ....just find the photos sooo shocking

I am not going to link

But HERE I will VOW in public

NEVER to Look at the DM ever again

Anyone know how to block a website ?

Thanks

Updated news says the mother gave birth unexpectedly and reported it to the landlord. She was on the scene throughout the rescue and admitted she was the mother. She is now in a serious condition due to the difficult birth.

It's so very sad and terrible

I also feel sorry for the mother to be driven to do that is very sad, but it's amazing the baby survived.

saw baby being recovered on BBC - quite amazing what we are privy to these days - Victim's blood on killers hands the other day and now a life threatening moment for a child.

Gosh, can you imagine people reacting in such a way? I remember my new borns and to see that little mite brought it all back - truly hope the authorities can offer a decent life to this babe. Is life so cheap there?

spiderbabymum, you need the tea and kittens download.
No more accidental clicks through to the DM. It is fab.

'Is life so cheap there?'

I think it's unforgivable that China is unable to see how awful their human rights abuses are, given that people are so desperate that human beings are literally thrown away. But then, they execute more people than any other country don't they? And sometimes without trial

Absolutely appalling but when I read the headlines on Yahoo, I thought it had to be in China. They have no sense of humanity when it comes to dealing with an unwanted child. Sadly, the child is just one of many that this sort of thing would happen to.

It's heartbreaking dp isn't a cryer and he had tears in his eyes reading it.

I really hope he gets adopted by a good family.

I would like to think that the Chinese people are good and kind as proved by people taking milk and clothes and nappies to the hospital

Awful, awful news. (I was surprised that he was a boy).

Thank goodness they saved him.

Yes, thank goodness there were people who were kind and acted quickly.
I didn't mean to criticise the Chinese as a race (I am Chinese by the way). I've worked in an orphanage many years ago on a short term mission and was informed of these harrowing stories.

The post I made was to say that this wouldn't really have been news in China as it is sadly so common. :(

uk.news.yahoo.com/newborn-baby-saved-toilet-pipe-china-080538314.html#tnGiOXT

According to this story...

Suggestions that the child had been dumped have been revised after it emerged that the 22-year-old unmarried mother of the baby was the one who raised the alarm.

According to a police source in Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the woman gave birth unexpectedly when she went to the lavatory on Saturday, and the newborn fell into the squat toilet.

The mother, who had hidden her pregnancy, telephoned her landlord, claiming she heard "weird noises" in the pipe, and the proprietor called police after spotting the infant.

It's terrible what the DM will report, isn't it - only last night o was in floods after clicking through from a story on the Guardian about a baby who had died after a forceps delivery went wrong. The Guardian coverage was okay, very discreet, but the Mail reported in much more detail about the baby's injuries and I was so shocked I just burst into tears. I wish they would have some decency about the gruesome way they report such things - it's inhumane :( I should know better (I once actually vomited after reading a DM news story on a child murder which they had reported in much more gruesome detail than anywhere else), but it always works the same way, you're just reading what you think is a factual news story and then they slip some detail in that really shouldn't be reported :( ugh :(

It's not all that surprising that he survived. The placenta was attached and the baby had just come from the womb into an equally tight environment. It's like when there have been natural disasters and the little babies in incubators in hospitals come through it alive and well, while older children and adults just don't survive or die soon after being rescued (the ones that haven't been squashed or injured that is). Something to do with psychological trauma.

I'm not sure what Chinese loos are like but is it likely a baby could slip away down the U bend by accident? Is the mother intending to keep the baby?

It seems it's more complex than first reported and that he wasn't abandoned, so I hope all the coverage will now be less critical of the Mother.

China's one-child policy can be very cruel and drive people to desperate acts - or have the authorities inflict cruelty on them, in terms of force abortions - but it doesn't seem to have been a factor here.

The mother admitted that she flushed the chain afterwards to get rid of the blood so it does contradict the idea of it being an accident. Plus she concealed her pregnancy throughout.... So sad

I find it odd that we are suddenly hearing stories about China - the everyday kind of news this would be... I am suspicious that this is in our press. Remember we only heard about the Ethiopian famine because it was a 'black news day'.
Maybe something to do with Max Clifford being 'away' and not peddlingcleb stories?