‘Worse than beasts’: millions in China view shocking online footage of woman giving birth in lift then dumping newborn into rubbish bin
- Infant survives awful ordeal of being pulled out from mother’s trouser leg inside lift then discarded in nearby bin
- Mother wipes blood from clothes, shoes and floor, covers infant with tissues and walks off with luggage
Shocking video footage of a woman in China giving birth to a baby inside a lift then throwing her newborn into a rubbish bin has outraged mainland social media.
Surveillance footage shows the woman carrying luggage into a lift of a residential community in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing on August 21, the local news outlet, TheCover, reported.
Seconds later, she bends down and pulls an infant from the bottom of her trouser leg. The woman then calmly uses tissue to wipe the blood from the baby, her clothing and the floor.
When others enter the lift, she hides the newborn in a corner to prevent them seeing it.
Finally, just minutes after it was born, she walks out of the elevator wheeling her luggage, dumps the child in a rubbish bin and calmly covers it with tissues.
At this point an elderly woman who noticed the woman’s strange behaviour stopped in her tracks but did not spot the baby in the bin.
