http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/chi...ely-throws-away-baby.html?mrn_rm=rta-fallback
A teenage girl in China has given birth to a baby girl on the street in front of her stunned mother who had no clue that her daughter had been pregnant.
Instead of cuddling her newborn granddaughter, the teen's mother tossed the baby away on the pavement, claiming her 15-year-old daughter 'was too young to be a mother' and 'we can't keep the baby'.
Onlookers were shocked by the grandmother's behaviour as they gathered over to look at the naked baby on a road in Jiaxing, Jiangsu Province, on Monday.
The newborn girl and the teen mother were later taken to the hospital for treatment by the hospital's security guards.
+4
A newborn girl has been saved after her grandmother tossed her away on the road in China
+4
Pedestrians gather around the baby (circled) after she was abandoned on the street in Jiaxing
SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Share
9.8k shares
The 15-year-old new mother was said to be a student on summer holiday. She was visiting her mother in Taixing, a three-hour train ride from Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province where she studies, according to Kan Kan News.
It's said that the teenager's mother, Ms Lin, had noticed her daughter bleeding in her privates and thought she could have suffered period pain. Therefore, Ms Lin took her daughter to the Taixing People's Hospital.
However, Ms Lin was shocked to see her daughter starting to give birth on the street moments after they got off the bus near the hospital.
Onlooker Ms Zhang said the girl's mother did not take the baby into the hospital; instead she left it abandoned on the side of the road.
Ms Zhang told Kan Kan News: '(The grandmother) said "no, no, we can't have the baby", and a lot of passers-by were watching.'
+
+4
The baby was born to a 15-year-old on the street before being deserted by her grandmother
A few hospital security guards were alerted and they reported the incident to the police. They also took the teenage mother and her baby into the hospital for medical treatment.
According to the report, the teenage mother still had the placenta inside her womb and underwent emergency surgery to have it removed.
The newborn suffered swelling in the head and was treated by doctors.
Police arrived at the scene and warned Ms Lin that it is a criminal offence to abandon children, especially newborns.
Ms Lin said she would make a plan for her daughter and granddaughter when her daughter recovers from the childbirth.
