Police rescue newborn baby girl stuck face down in public toilet’s pipe

“Her head was upside down and her body was falling into the drain”.

Handout image shows a frame grab of a Beijing Tianqiao Police video taken on August 2, 2015 that shows a Chinese policeman holding an abandoned newborn baby in a public toilet in Beijing.

The baby girl is still in hospital and appears to be healthy.

The police discovered the abandoned child stuck in the sewer of the toilet after citizens called to report that they could hear a baby crying in the bathroom.

Blood around the lavatory bowl, and the fact that her parents did not report her trapped in the pipe, indicated she had been born in the toilet and abandoned there, it said, adding that the police were trying to identify her parents.

Last year a similar instance of a baby girl found in a toilet was reported in North Point, Shanghai.

Officers first on the scene found the baby stuck in the toilet’s pipe leading to the sewer.

Chinese newspapers frequently carry reports about the abandonment of newborn babies.

The baby survived the traumatic event and is now safe.

Police are now searching for her mother. Couples who have more than one baby face serious fines. Rescuers were forced to saw away a section of the pipe with the boy inside, according to Agence France-Presse.