She was taken to a hospital in the capital and did not appear to have any physical disabilities, according to the report.
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“The baby’s head was upside down and the whole body has fallen into the sewer”.
A newborn baby who’d been stuffed down a Chinese public toilet was saved after passersby heard its desperate screams for help. “I could vaguely saw the baby’s feet from the side”, police officer Qian Feng told the newspaper.
Authorities think the child’s mother gave birth to her in the facility and then abandoned her, which is sadly not an uncommon scenario in China.
In the past, a preference for baby boys has meant that the majority of abandoned children were girls.
Officers also found blood around the lavatory bowl where the baby was found which indicated she was born in the toilet and abandoned there.
They said the infant did not appear to have any physical defects.
Incidents involving suffering infants have scandalised the Chinese public in recent years. 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.
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In 2013, rescuers in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang gingerly cut open a sewer pipe to save a baby boy, who his mother said accidentally slipped into the toilet where she delivered him.
