A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly dumping her
two-hour-old newborn baby inside a plastic bag and running away. She
abandoned her baby in a pink plastic bag that was later spotted by
shocked locals in Wangjiaoqiao village, south-west China. The child whose gender was not revealed, was rushed to hospital by
police for emergency treatment but did not survive.
In an attempt to
find her, Investigators who watched surveillance footage from the
village discovered that the child was carried across town by a woman
wearing a red coat and black trousers, who later discarded the bag a
distance from her home in a random spot. Police located her home and
arrested her. She reportedly confessed to abandoning the child just two
hours after giving birth but gave no clear reason behind her action. If
Police investigations show that she murdered her baby before discarding
it, further charges will be pressed against her.