Abandoned Chinese Newborn Rescued From Toilet — Baby Girl Found Stuck Head-First Down Toilet Pipe

Deeply disturbing images released by the police in Beijing show a clearly shaken police officer holding a tiny newborn moments after he rescued her from inside a toilet pipe in a public restroom.

Miraculously, the baby survived the ordeal of being abandoned in the toilet by her mother after birth.

She was dumped inside the lavatory moments after birth in a public restroom in western Beijing, according to the Guardian. She fell into the toilet head-first and became stuck in the pipe.

A police officer rescued her after residents and passers-by heard her cries and called the police.

Photos released to the media by Beijing Tianqiao Police on August 2, show Quian Feng, the brave police officer who rescued the baby, holding her up with a pained expression.

According to the Beijing Times, Feng said the baby’s head “was pointing downwards and her whole body had already fallen into the drain. We could only see the baby’s feet from the side.”

Feng tugged gently at the baby stuck head-first inside the toilet pipe and pulled her out. Locals who assisted him dried the baby’s body and wrapped her in a towel before she was taken to the hospital.

The baby girl is in a stable condition and recovering at the hospital. Police said they were conducting investigations and searching for the mother and father of the baby.

Although, historically, more baby girls have been abandoned than boys because of the Chinese cultural preference for baby boys, a higher proportion of abandoned babies in recent times were born with disabilities. Most cases involving healthy babies are due to social and financial pressure.

Social workers in China say that the incidence of abandoned baby girls increased during the years of the one-child policy of the Chinese authorities.

In December 2014, The Inqusitr reported the case of a newborn who survived being flushed down the toilet after birth in the Shaanxi Province of China. Passers-by heard the screams of the newborn and called local emergency services, who rescued the baby from the sewer.

According to emergency workers, who nicknamed the baby Xiaoxioa, meaning “tiny,” they found him lying on his back in a pool of filth.

Also in December 2014, The Inquisitr reported the case of a baby born premature that survived being buried alive for two hours. Her parents, Lu Xiayun and He Yong, peasants in the rural area of Dongdong in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, said they thought the baby was stillborn.

Earlier in May 2013, police in the eastern province of Zhejiang reported that a two-day old, five-pound baby was rescued from a sewage pipe after being flushed down the toilet. Local residents who heard the baby’s cries alerted local emergency workers.

The rescuers were unable to pull the baby out of the pipe. They had to cut out the section of the pipe in which the baby was stuck and take it to the hospital where surgeons, assisted by emergency workers, pulled the pipe apart painstakingly, to avoid injuring the baby.

Efforts to combat the widespread social problem led to the some cities setting up “baby safety islands” where mothers can leave their unwanted offspring. But the experiment failed in Guangzhou after the “safety island” was inundated with more abandoned babies than it could handle.

[Imnage: Beijing Tianqiao Police/Getty]