Not Just Newborns Abandoned in China

Not Just Newborns Abandoned in China

The case of the newborn baby freed from a sewer pipe in China at the weekend that has horrified and transfixed the world is the tip of an iceberg in more senses than one. A Beijing newspaper reports that the hospital which specialises in treating abandoned babies in the capital receives a thousand a year on average. Earlier this month, a baby’s corpse was found on a rubbish dump in the city. The Chinese author Xinran has documented a string of such cases starting with a tiny baby girl she rescued from a public toilet in 1990; when Xinran reported the case in a broadcast on the radio station where she worked, the mother called in to say: “My money’s running out. Tell my baby I’m so sorry.”

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