China police save baby girl from public toilet pipe

Now, officials said, most abandoned babies are sick or disabled.

A newborn baby was found stuck head-first down a pipe in a public toilet after members of the public reported hearing its screams.

Last year, the body of a newborn girl was found in a public toilet in North Point, Shanghai.

The infant, whose gender has not been revealed, was taken to a hospital in Beijing. “I looked again, and thought we should try to pull her out even if the possibility might be slim”.

“There is a right-angled pipe inside the train, and the baby was nearly trapped in the horizontal pipe”, Qian told the Beijing Times.

The hospital treating the baby says she is doing well and appears healthy. It added that she had no apparent physical defects. Although a few are dropped off at “baby safety islands” and taken to orphanages, others are abandoned in public places such as toilets and train stations.

Most abandoned babies suffer from a range of disabilities and medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, congenital heart disease, club feet and cleft lip.

Because there was blood on the scene and on the baby, the Chinese media speculated that the baby was abandoned by the mother after she gave birth in the toilet. Police are now trying to establish the identity of the baby’s mother.

China has a strict one-child policy.