On Sunday, the body of a newborn girl was found in a public toilet block in North Point, Hong Kong. Her umbilical cord still attached, the baby was wrapped in a black shopping bag and found on a toilet tank in a female toilet block on Tong Shui Road.
Though a cleaner came across the bag in the morning, she left it undisturbed thinking it had been forgotten by a customer. By the afternoon however, she decided to open the bag and was shocked to find a baby inside. The body had a bruise on the forehead.
Detectives closed off the toilet and a doctor and forensic officers arrived shortly after, declaring the baby dead at the scene. According to the SCMP, Chief inspector Samuel Lam Siu-Wah of Eastern district police said the baby measured 50 cm (19.6 in) long and there was no identification left inside the bag. He declared that his "forensic colleagues will help us find out whether the baby was born dead or died after birth, the cause of her death, as well as her ethnicity".
The Standard reports that forensic doctors found signs of decomposition, which may mean the baby had been dead for some time.
It is unknown if surveillance cameras may have caught footage of whoever dumped the baby.
The police requested that anyone with information call 2880-4363 or 6148-0075.
In December, a Hong Kong woman was arrested for the "preventing a lawful burial" after she dumped the body of her infant daughter. She had previously claimed that the baby had been abducted by a "mainland woman".
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