Alive! Baby Flushed Down The Loo

The mum of a newborn baby found wedged in a toilet pipe will not be prosecuted - after officials ruled it was an accident. The two-day-old tot is recovering after being flushed down the loo in China. Firemen found the tiny boy after his mum gave birth unexpectedly while in the bathroom and the baby fell into the lavatory. The unmarried 22-year-old had kept her pregnancy secret and had to watch as the rescue effort unfolded.

A police official said: "Our investigations showed it was an accident."

Rescuers found the child when they cut into the pipe and saw a tiny foot. The 5lb boy could not be tugged out so the entire L-shaped section of pipe was cut out and taken to hospital.

Doctors in Jinhua, China, then used saws and pliers to carefully chip away at the pipe to free the baby, who still had his umbilical cord and placenta attached. He suffered cuts and a possible fractured skull.

But the hospital said the boy — named Baby 59 after the number of his incubator — was stable and expected to make a full recovery.

Police were initially said to be treating the case as attempted murder amid claims the parents deliberately flushed the unwanted baby down the loo. But after finding the placenta still attached officers ruled it was a freak accident and reports say the mother was at the scene the whole time.

The dramatic rescue was captured by TV cameras and sparked a furious response on Chinese social networks. One poster said: “I can never forgive dumping the baby into the toilet pipe. Can these people be called human beings?”

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Babies are often dumped in China as couples in towns and cities are fined if they have more than one child. The policy was introduced in the 1970s in an effort to keep a rapidly growing population under control.