A precious infant, known as “Baby 59,” is recovering well in the hospital and
drinking formula after he was flushed down the toilet by his mother.
He has made a miraculous recovery, considering the dire circumstances under which he was found.
The infant was found after residents of an apartment building in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province, heard cries from a fourth-floor apartment bathroom, according to CNN.
Once authorities arrived on the scene, they tried to pull the baby boy out of the toilet, but with no success. So the rescuers ran to the floor below the apartment, and sawed away the section of the pipe where the baby was stuck. Unfortunately, rescuers couldn’t remove the baby from the sewage pipe, even after it was sawed off.
Authorities brought the pipe the hospital, and carefully cut out the infant.
Police concluded that the 22-year-old single woman faces no charges, deciding she did not initially step forward because she was frightened, and that she gradually had a change of heart and began to tell the truth, an official said.
`The woman told police she got pregnant after a brief affair with the man, hid her pregnancy from family and neighbours, and secretly delivered the child on Saturday in a rental building's toilet.
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 questioned the woman claiming to be the boy’s mom, who said that she didn’t mean for her baby boy to fall inside the toilet, according to CNN.
Even though the woman has not been identified, police say she is in her early 20s. So far, police believe her story, according to CNN.“That day she felt stomach aches,” Jiang Song, the vice director of police, said. “So she went to the toilet. It was actually close to her due date and the baby just slid out.”
Nurses said the baby suffered fractures skull, but however, is in a stable condition.
The case has provoked debate over China's lack of proper education about sex and birth in many schools.
Unwanted pregnancies have been on the rise because of an increasingly lax attitude toward pre-marital sex in the country.
I am wandering what you make out from the mother's comment?
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