Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby girl found wedged face-down in a Beijing toilet on Sunday. Residents heard cries from a public toilet block and notified police. “Her head was upside down and her body was falling into the drain. We could only vaguely see her feet from the side,” Qian Feng, the local police chief told the paper.
“She just kept crying. I looked again, and thought we should try to pull her out even if the possibility might be slim,” he added. She was taken to a hospital in the capital but did not appear to have any physical disabilities.
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In a police video taken during the rescue, Qian is seen kneeling by the toilet, reaching his right hand into the drain. “There is a right-angled pipe inside the train, and the baby was almost trapped in the horizontal pipe,” Qian told.
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After being pulled safely out of the pipe, residents helped police wrap the baby up before she was sent to a nearby hospital. As of Monday night, she was in a stable condition and authorities were trying to identify her parents, Beijing police said.
“I am probably the first one to hold this child,” Qian told the TV station in a later interview.
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Chinese babies born out of wedlock are sometimes abandoned because of social and financial pressures. The country’s one-child policy can also mean heavy fines for couples who have more than one baby.
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 the child. Local media reports said the woman became pregnant after a one-night stand but hid the pregnancy from her parents. She later admitted to police she was the mother.