Newborn Baby flushed down toilet survives

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

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.

Despites the offers to adopt Baby No. 59, a doctor at the hospital said the boy would be handed over to social services if his parents did not claim him, Zhejiang News said.

In China, reports of babies being abandoned are common and fuel public anger against a strict one-child policy that imposes huge fines on parents who violate the rules. The policy has been blamed as a factor causing parents to abandon unwanted children, though they are usually baby girls whose parents want sons due to a traditional preference for male heirs.

[hometeam]

Its baffling to me how someone can be so heartless. Though, this and worse usually happens to girls in China on the norm~

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

they only saved it cus it was a boy

Yep !

[mikey23545]

Just goes to show you that you shouldn't push too hard when trying to dislodge that turtlehead...

[Jiu Jitsu Jon]

Originally Posted by Maverick91579

**** any lame attempt at comedy or bad puns in this thread. Shit like this makes me want to go savage on people

People on here evidently have empathy for someone who lost a cat, but not a human child found in a toilet. Some day some of these people MIGHT grow up, have a kid and than realize this stuff really just isn't very funny.

[AussieChiefsFan]

Wait.... WHAT?!

[TimeForWasp]

Pipe crack baby.

[AphexPhin]

DISGRACEFUL!!!!

And I knew it took place in China before I even opened the thread

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by AphexPhin

DISGRACEFUL!!!!

And I knew it took place in China before I even opened the thread

Not me. I thought it was going be a Florida thing..



Any ways kid had all his future hopes and dreams flushed down the toilet but was rescued and can now live out his pipe dream.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Jiu Jitsu Jon

People on here evidently have empathy for someone who lost a cat, but not a human child found in a toilet. Some day some of these people MIGHT grow up, have a kid and than realize this stuff really just isn't very funny.

[morphius]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Not me. I thought it was going be a Florida thing..



Any ways kid had all his future hopes and dreams flushed down the toilet but was rescued and can now live out his pipe dream.

It is the one child rule, the only surprise is that it was a boy as it is normally girls that are disposed of.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by morphius

It is the one child rule, the only surprise is that it was a boy as it is normally girls that are disposed of.

I get that. it was intended to be a slight on Florida. I mean we have had enough of Florida this year. Can't fault me for that. It's Florida after all.

[Backwards Masking]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

I get that. it was intended to be a slight on Florida. I mean we have had enough of Florida this year. Can't fault me for that. It's Florida after all.

don't worry, someone down there will get caught flushing a baby soon enough and the people that missed your point will see your post as prophecy instead of trolling. it's florida....we both know it's a matter of "when", not "if"