Mother in China dumps 7-month-old baby in a box near piles of rubbish to punish husband after the couple had a fight
- The woman was filmed on CCTV wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts holding a baby and walking towards a rubbish collection point
- The woman is then seen leaving the baby in a cardboard box and walking away in the widely shared video that has shocked millions in China
Police in China are investigating a case in which a woman dumped her nearly seven-month-old baby in a box near a rubbish collection centre during a heatwave.
The unnamed woman, from Yiwu in Zhejiang province in eastern China, had quarrelled with her husband before she left her baby in a cardboard box last Sunday afternoon when temperatures in the region were near 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), Chinese news outlet people.cn reported.
The woman was filmed on CCTV wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts holding a baby with her hands whilst walking towards a rubbish collection centre.
As she reached the station, she is seen stopping and bending over then putting the baby inside a cardboard box. She then took out her smartphone, took a photo of the baby in the box, and sent it to her husband.
The woman then turned around and walked a short distance before she stopped in front of a shop and watched where she had left the baby.
Shortly afterwards, a passer-by discovered the child and called the police.
Doctors who were called to the scene confirmed that the baby was unharmed. The gender of the baby is not known.