Rescuers save a newborn from sewer pipe beneath public restroom in China

Published May 28, 2013 Associated Press

BEIJING – A newborn boy is recovering in a Chinese hospital after being rescued from a sewage pipe below a squat toilet by firefighters, who sawed off an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantled it to free the trapped baby.

A tenant heard the baby's cries in the public restroom of a residential building in Zhejiang province in eastern China on Saturday and notified authorities, according to the state-run news site Zhejiang News. A video of the two-hour rescue that followed was broadcast widely on Chinese news programs and websites late Monday and Tuesday.

The child — named Baby No. 59 from the number of his hospital incubator — was reported safe in a nearby hospital, and news of the rescue prompted an outpouring from strangers who came to the hospital with diapers, baby clothes, powdered milk and offers to adopt the child.

The baby weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 pounds) and still had his placenta attached to his body, reports said. His heart rate was low and there were grazes on his head and limbs, but he was largely unscathed, according to Zhejiang Online, the province's official news portal.

It was not immediately clear how the baby ended up in the toilet, but police said they were treating the case as an attempted homicide. The Pujiang county police bureau said on its official microblog account that the boy's mother has been located and that an investigation is ongoing, but gave no further details.

A duty officer at the Pujiang Public Security Bureau reached by phone late Tuesday said he had no information and that staffers involved in the investigation had left for the day.

On China's popular Twitter-like microblogs, some users expressed pity for the child and horror at his ordeal. Most bloggers speculated that the child had been abandoned and dumped by his parents down the toilet.

The landlord of the building in Pujiang county told Zhejiang News that it was unlikely the birth took place in the restroom because there was no evidence of blood and she was not aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.

The baby was stuck in an L-shaped portion of the sewage pipe with a diameter of about 10 centimeters (3 inches).

The video shows rescuers sawing off a section of the pipe along a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom. The rescuers then rushed that section of pipe to a hospital, where firefighters and medics alternately used pliers and saws to rip apart the pipe and free the baby.

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If this was a female baby, this wouldn't be news because they would have left her there in the pipe to die. Because of that fact, every single Chinamen can go directly to hell. Screw every one of those Commie bastards.

You have daughters Mr. Cannon? :)

I expected it to be a girl, was surprised to see that it was a little boy. They routinely kill their baby girls.

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You have daughters Mr. Cannon? :)

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How'd you guess?

BTW, I found how they conduct themselves barbaric even before I had kids. Real subhuman stuff in my book.

It appears the mother was the tenant who heard the baby crying. I do believe it's possible the baby slipped I suppose and don't know whether to feel sorry for the mother or charge her with attempted murder.



"While police in Jinhua would not comment on the case by telephone, state-run newspapers including the Qianjiang Evening News said that the woman told police she had gotten pregnant after a one-night stand.

The woman reportedly said she could not afford an abortion and hid her pregnancy from neighbors by tying strips of cloth around her stomach and wearing baggy clothes. The father of the child refused to acknowledge his paternity, police told the paper.

The mother told police that Sunday’s delivery came as a surprise. She reportedly went to the fourth-floor public bathroom where she lived as she felt sick and found herself in labor.

Not wanting her child, but unwilling to leave him to die in the drain, she reportedly notified a neighbor of sounds coming from the pipes, who then called police to investigate.

Jinhua police said on Tuesday that the case was being treated as an attempted murder investigation, but with the mother in custody having admitted the boy was her child, it was unclear whether police would charge her."

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It appears the mother was the tenant who heard the baby crying. I do believe it's possible the baby slipped I suppose and don't know whether to feel sorry for the mother or charge her with attempted murder.

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Thank you for the update.