Newborn baby is found alive stuffed in a toilet cistern: Miracle rescue after cleaner hears tiny girl’s cries in Thai office block
An abandoned baby girl was found alive, stuffed inside a toilet tank in Thailand.
The newborn was crying when she was heard by a housekeeper cleaning the third floor of an office building in Bangkok on November 15.
The worker lifted the toilet lid and was shocked to find the child stuffed in the container, half-filled with water, where she was believed to have been placed shortly after birth.
The baby was unclothed, and her hands had gone pale and wrinkled from soaking in the water.
Police rushed to the scene in the Lat Krabang district at around 11 am local time after receiving a report.
The girl was taken to the Sirindhorn Hospital for a check-up. Doctors said she weighed six pounds and confirmed she was unharmed.
Police Captain Kritsada Saikhong of Lat Krabang Police Station said: ‘The baby girl was under a day old. She was a newborn but there was no sign of the mother.
An abandoned baby girl was found alive, stuffed inside a toilet tank in Thailand
The newborn was crying when she was heard by a housekeeper cleaning the third floor of an office building in Bangkok on November 15
The baby was unclothed, and her hands had gone pale and wrinkled from soaking in the water
‘We will proceed with the investigation to find who left the baby girl in the toilet. Officers are checking CCTV cameras to establish who was in the building and who used the bathroom.’
The parents may be prosecuted for abandonment under Thai Penal Code Section 306, which carries a penalty of up to three years in prison, a fine of up to 6,000 baht (£140), or both.
It comes after earlier this year a heart-breaking video captured the moment sanitation workers rescued an abandoned newborn after it fell out of a trash bag on a Rio de Janeiro street.
Samuel Santos told Brazilian news outlet G1 that his crew was removing garbage during the early hours of the morning on a road linking the northern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods of Quintino and Cascadura when he flipped a trash can into the truck .
Santos was walking back to the garbage truck when he spotted what he thought was a new ‘doll’ wrapped in a blanket and decided to pick it up as a gift for his daughter.
Rescuers observed the girl’s fingers were wrinkled due to the time she had spent in water
Police rushed to the scene in the Lat Krabang district at around 11 am local time after receiving a report
The cleaner was startled when he touched one of the hands and it made the baby cry.
Anderson Nunes, who had been working for the sanitation company for 16 years, said they were moved by knowing they had just saved the girl’s life.
‘We named the baby Vitória … Let’s hope they find her family,’ Nunes told the outlet. ‘If they do, I’ll be visiting them no matter what.’
