Year in jail for mother who abandoned baby
Print Edition
A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to a one-year jail term by Jing’an District People’s Court yesterday for abandoning her new-born daughter for three years.
The woman, surnamed Gao, is unmarried and delivered her child in a Jiading District hospital in February 2014. The baby, nicknamed Duoduo, was transferred to the Children’s Hospital of Shanghai the following month due to perinatal asphyxia.
However, with Duoduo ready to be discharged, the hospital was unable to contact Gao, as she had changed her phone number and moved home.
The baby had to live in the hospital’s ward for newborns until May 12, 2016, when she was able to be placed in the city’s children’s temporary care center, an institution that looks after suspected abandoned babies.
According to the court, Gao never visited Duoduo or paid any medical or other expenses after giving birth. Police have been unable to locate the child’s father.
Jing’an District prosecutors tried to contact Gao’s family to see if they would take care of Duoduo, but Gao’s mother, who had remarried after divorcing Gao’s father, declined to do so. After multiple attempts to persuade Gao to look after her child, Gao was charged with abandonment on May 15.
The temporary care center is expected to apply to the court for Gao’s custody of her child to be revoked.
If the center does go to court, this is expected to be the first case in Shanghai whereby a civil affairs authority applies to a court to cancel a natural mother’s custody.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔＄粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
