The Chinese newborn who defied the odds and survived a trip down a sewer pipe moments after his birth has finally been released from the hospital.
Now, Baby No. 59, as he is called in the hospital, will live with his maternal grandparents while his mother remains under medical care.
As for the young, unwed mother of the child, police have concluded that the incident was an accident, meaning she is unlikely to be criminally charged.
The mother had initially raised the alarm about the baby when he got stuck Saturday in a pipe just below a squat toilet in a public restroom of a residential building, but she had cleaned the room of signs of a fresh birth and did not initially come forward as the mother, officials have been quoted as saying.
She told authorities that she delivered the child Saturday in a rental building’s restroom. She said the infant accidentally slipped into the squat toilet and – after cleaning up the scene – raised the alarm.
She admitted she was the mother two days later when confronted by police who had found baby toys and blood-stained tissues in her apartment, the reports said.
Police later concluded that the incident was an accident and that the woman did not initially come forward because she was frightened, but that she later started telling the truth, the Jinhua Evening News and a Pujiang county propaganda official said. The police initially treated the case as a possible attempted homicide, but now are unlikely to file criminal charges, the newspaper and official said.
Wow! Not sure how much of an accident it was, but the good news is police have tracked down the father, who had a one night stand with the mother, and he’s willing to support the child if a paternity test comes back positive.
We wish Baby No. 59 the best.
SOURCE: Huffington Post
