Chinese Baby Found in Toilet’s Sewage Drain Pipe
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Bing on Monday, June 3, 2013
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Firefighter removed the section of pipe where the infant was stuck in.
From QQ:
Newborn Baby Boy Stuck in a Sewer Pipe Miraculously Survived; Police Rule the Incident an Accident
Latest Information: Police Have For The Moment Ruled the Pujiang “Sewer Baby Boy Incident” an Accident. In Zhejiang province Pujiang county, when a pregnant woman went to the lavatory “to relieve herself”, she gave birth, with the infant slipping down into the sewer pipe. After the baby was rescued, the woman didn’t immediately claim the child. Netizens think this woman intentionally abandoned the infant. But this reporter learned from interviewing the Pujiang county Punan local police station that police have temporarily ruled the incident an accident. At the moment, they are doing further investigation and verification, as well as intensifying the search for the newborn’s father. (Yue Deliang)
Previous Report:
May 25 afternoon, after “No. 59 Xiao Mao Tou” [the newborn baby's nickname in the media, literally "Little Head of Hair"] was found in a sewer pipe, his story has continuously clutched at people’s hearts. Everyone wants to know just what kind of person would treat a newborn baby like this.
Yesterday, news came from the Pujiang county Punan local police station that after three consecutive days of investigation, Xiao Mao Tou’s birth mother was finally found. What flabbergasted people was that this person is that same female tenant who told the landlord that there was a baby crying in the toilet.
Female tenant’s room had many baby toys
After the “No. 59 Xiao Mao Tou” incident happened, the Punan police station immediately got involved to investigate. On May 26, the Pujiang county public security bureau also specially set up a special investigating team.
“On the first day, work was focused on saving the baby. So the screening investigation was very extensive,” said Punan police station chief Zhang Jianbo. After setting up the special investigating group, they set the No.118 rented apartment as the center and began blanket searches of the surrounding rented houses.
The focus of the search was of course the rented house where the incident occurred. On the 27th, during the day, after a comprehensive inspection of the tenants at home, the special investigating group didn’t find any problems.
At 9pm on the 27th, the police checked again but after two whole hours, there were still no clues. After 11pm, when checking the room next door to the toilet on the fourth floor, police found something suspicious.
In this small room, there were many dolls and other children’s toys, and there was even blood-stained
toilet paper in the trash can. Furthermore, the person who lives there happens to be the female tenant who had told the landlord that there was a baby crying in sewer pipe that day.
“After finding these circumstances, the police conducting the search immediately called headquarters, where me, the deputy chief along with several other people rushed there at once,” said Zhang Jianbo. The female tenant is very young, 1.6 meters in height, and of burly body. When confronted, this girl adamantly refused to admit that Xiao Mao Tou had anything to do with her, explaining that the blood-stained
toilet paper in the trash can was her period.
Feeling that this girl was possibly lying, Zhang Jianbo intentionally said whether or not it’s menstruation or not is not something that is decided by her, and they’ll know for sure after going to the hospital to have it tested. When saying this, the girl hesitantly said she wanted to talk to Zhang Jianbo alone.
“I had a deputy chief stay and all the other police go out. When the door closed, the girl fell to her knees on the floor, admitting that the child was hers.” She cried and said to Zhang Jianbo, “I really didn’t do it deliberately,” hoping that her parents would not be told of this matter, lest she be beaten to death [get into big trouble with her parents].
Subsequently, Zhang Jianbo took the girl back to local police station where in the station, the girl cried as she told how everything happened.
Accidentally gave birth to Xiao Mao Tou when using the toilet
The girl is 22 years old this year, a Pujiang local, and high school graduate. Because her work place is far away from home, she rented a room in Jiangnan Xincun, normally living alone.
At the end of last year, through a friend’s introduction, the girl met a Pujiang local young man, and the two soon after had sexual relations. A month later, she didn’t have her period, but the girl didn’t think much about it, up until the beginning of this year when she finally realized she was pregnant.
Panicking, the girl immediately found the young man she had sex with, but he didn’t acknowledge the child as his. Fearing her parents’ scolding, she could only hide [what had happened].
The explained how she gave birth to the baby:
had also thought of going to the hospital for an abortion, but had no money. To hide the pregnancy when I went out, I would use fabric to tightly wrap my belly and specially wore loose clothing. Because I’m relatively fat, and with the additional concealing, no one actually noticed I was pregnant.
On the afternoon of the 25th, I suddenly felt a stomach ache, and wanted to use the toilet. Just as I squatted down, the baby came out, and immediately slipped down into the sewer pipe.
Seeing the child in the sewer pipe, I tried to grab with my hand, but the more I grabbed, the deeper the baby slid down. Even using the mop, there was no way to get baby out.
Afraid of being found out by others, I hurriedly rinsed the floor clean of blood, then hurriedly told the landlord there was a child in the sewer pipe. Although firefighters then rescued the child, I was afraid I couldn’t raise the child, so I chose to remain silent.
“During the first screening investigation, we noticed that this girl was very concerned about the child’s condition, but because many people were concerned at the time, we didn’t think to much about it, never expecting that it would turn out to be her,” said Zhang Jianbo. What is certain now is that the girl is indeed Xiao Mao Tou’s birth mother, but whether or not what actually happened is as the girl says requires their continued investigation.
Because the girl continued to work after giving birth to the baby, yesterday she had already developed a high fever, her face pale. The police have already informed her parents to take her to the hospital to see a doctor. As for Xiao Mao Tou, Zhang Jianbo has already entrusted the hospital to take care of him for a few more days.