Newborn's fall into toilet was accidental, officials say
The fall of a newborn baby into a toilet pipe in Jinhua, Zhejiang , was accidental and his mother will not be prosecuted, local officials said yesterday, adding that the boy had survived the ordeal.
The fall of a newborn baby into a toilet pipe in Jinhua, Zhejiang , was accidental and his mother will not be prosecuted, local officials said yesterday, adding that the boy had survived the ordeal.
The mother, 22 and unmarried, had kept her pregnancy secret and gave birth unexpectedly when she went to the lavatory on Saturday.
The newborn fell into the squat toilet and became stuck in the tube, police said earlier.
Firefighters and doctors spent nearly an hour taking a section of the 10-centimetre-diameter pipe apart piece by piece with pliers and saws before they could recover the boy, whose placenta was still attached, media reports said.
"Our investigations showed it was an accident," said a local police officer who declined to be named, confirming that the mother would not be prosecuted. She refused to give further details.
The incident triggered hundreds of thousands of comments on China's hugely popular , services similar to Twitter, with users astonished by the circumstances and expressing good wishes for the baby.
