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Newborn baby rescued from drain by cyclists
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The mother of a baby boy who was found abandoned in a Sydney drain has been charged with attempted murder. Police will allege the child, which is now in a stable condition in hospital, lay in the drain from Tuesday until he was found on Sunday morning.
Although police originally believed the baby was two to three days old, it is now understood the little boy was born last Monday. The 30-year-old mother was identified after officers made a direct appeal to the family of the boy.
David Otte and his 18-year-old daughter Hayley were two of the four cyclists who discovered the baby in a stormwater pit off the M7, at Quakers Hill, at 7.30am today. They initially thought that the sounds were a kitten – but then Mr Otte realised that the cries were human.
'I've got two kids of my own so I know what a baby screaming sounds like,' he said.
The drain was covered by a concrete slab which weighed over 200kg and took six people to lift, including two police officers who had arrived at the scene.
They were then able to extract the baby boy, who was wrapped in a striped hospital blanket covered in dirt with the peg still attached to his cut umbilical cord.
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