baby girl wedged inside the pipe from a university
toilet after her student mother gave birth and then
fled leaving the child behind.
Mirror reports that Police believe that the young
woman had hoped to hide the pregnancy but because
the toilet had no water filled U-bend, and because the
pipe was only twenty centimetres wide, the baby
girl's body had become wedged a short way down,
where her cries alerted other students who then
raised the alarm.
Firemen who rushed to the student dormitory in the
city of Linyi in eastern China's Shandong Province
were amazed to find the child wedged in the pipe and
clearly still alive from the noise she was making, and
realised it was a race against time to free her.
Fire Brigade spokesman Tao Fang said: "It was
impossible to get the baby out from above. She had
fallen into the toilet and gone down the pipes were
she had got stuck between the third and fourth floors.
We used an angle grinder to break open the pipeline
on the third floor and we could then push the child
up to colleagues on the fourth floor where she was
handed to medics who were waiting to take her to
hospital.
Police meanwhile managed to track down the child's
mother who was a student living in the building and
who was also hospitalised. Police say they are
waiting to question her before deciding what she
might be charged with.
The shocking story caused heated debate on Chinese
social media sites with many lamenting lack of
decent values among the country's youth and shock
at the way she had simply abandoned the baby in the
toilet.
One user on China's popular social media site
Weibo, WangLo34, said: "I find the image of a young
woman giving birth in the toilet, cleaning herself up
and then going back to her room to carry on studying
a particularly worrying one and a sign of the sort of
throwaway society that we live in now days."
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