Dad who deserted baby boy detained
By Chen Xingjie |
March 12, 2010, Friday
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POLICE in central China's Hubei Province have detained a man aged in his 30s who abandoned his desperately ill newborn son.
The man, surnamed Fan, surrendered to police in Hubei's Xiaogan City on Monday after reading reports about an abandoned boy he believed to be his son, yesterday's Xinmin Evening News reported.
DNA examinations showed he was the baby's father.
Fan said his son was born with congenital illness on February 22 at Xiaochang County People's Hospital. He took the boy to the provincial capital, Wuhan, to seek treatment, but said he could not afford a required surgery.
After returning to Xiaochang, he abandoned the gasping baby by a dustbin.
A cleaner found the boy on February 25 when dumping trash, including charcoal.
The boy was sent to an orphanage and again taken to a local hospital after falling ill again.
He was diagnosed with esophageal atresia and doctors operated successfully to correct the fault on March 3. Doctors also found dozens of coal cinders in his esophagus.
The baby recovered and was now able to take milk, according to a doctor, Yu Lei.
The man, surnamed Fan, surrendered to police in Hubei's Xiaogan City on Monday after reading reports about an abandoned boy he believed to be his son, yesterday's Xinmin Evening News reported.
DNA examinations showed he was the baby's father.
Fan said his son was born with congenital illness on February 22 at Xiaochang County People's Hospital. He took the boy to the provincial capital, Wuhan, to seek treatment, but said he could not afford a required surgery.
After returning to Xiaochang, he abandoned the gasping baby by a dustbin.
A cleaner found the boy on February 25 when dumping trash, including charcoal.
The boy was sent to an orphanage and again taken to a local hospital after falling ill again.
He was diagnosed with esophageal atresia and doctors operated successfully to correct the fault on March 3. Doctors also found dozens of coal cinders in his esophagus.
The baby recovered and was now able to take milk, according to a doctor, Yu Lei.
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