From the San Fran Chronicle: A 22-year-old woman who raised the initial alarm about a newborn trapped in a sewer pipe in China kept quiet about being his mother even as she watched the sensational two-hour rescue unfold, reports said Wednesday.
The woman, whose name was not revealed in state media reports,
confessed to police a couple of days later when they asked her to undergo a
medical checkup after searching her rented room and finding toys and
blood-stained toilet paper, the state-run Zhejiang
News website said.
Firefighters were called
Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang
province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe
just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.
Video of the rescue of Baby No.
59 — so named because of his incubator number in the hospital — was shown on
Chinese news programs and websites starting late Monday and picked up worldwide,
prompting both horror and an outpouring of charity on behalf of the newborn.
The single woman, a tenant in
the building, told police she could not afford an abortion and secretly
delivered the child Saturday afternoon in the toilet. She said the newborn
slipped into the sewer line and that she alerted her landlord of the trapped
baby after she could not pull the child out, Zhejiang News said.
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Surprising the Chinese authorities let the mom be with the baby, under supervision.
Unfortunately, for Planned Parenthood, the baby survived and will make a full recovery.
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