Baby abandoned twice by father in China may be returned to him
Man had told hospital he lacked the money and expertise to raise the boy hours before abandoning him for a second time, but police aim to change his mind
A father who abandoned his baby twice in as many months in Shanghai has been asked to take the child back by the authorities, according to reports.
The six-month-old boy, referred to by the pseudonym Xiaoyu, was first abandoned by his father on March 19 and placed by police under temporary care in a hospital in Baoshan, a suburb of Shanghai. Police persuaded the unnamed man to collect his baby almost two months later, last Thursday, but he then abandoned his son for a second time that same day.
But authorities said on Wednesday they were trying to contact the father again and convince him to take his child home, reported news site ThePaper.cn.
“When he came to the hospital, we saw a child wrapped in blankets and a note with a name on it,” Jin Liying, the head nurse of the hospital, was quoted as saying, referring to the first incident.
“There was a bag with milk powder, calcium tablets and cod liver oil, but we didn’t know how old he was.”