The China Post
Date: January 22, 2017
By: The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A newborn boy was found alive on Saturday after being left overnight in an alley near
Rescuers tend to a newborn boy found abandoned in Tainan on Saturday, Jan. 21. (CNA)
Fort Zeelandia in Tainan.
“He was found naked and his body temperature was very low,” said Huang Po-hsun (黃柏巽) of Tainan City Government’s Fire Bureau (安平消防隊).
The infant was sent to a local hospital for emergency treatment and is in stable condition as of press time.
‘Thought it was a cat’
Police in Greater Tainan’s Anping District (安平區) said they received a call at 8 a.m. Saturday from a man surnamed Liu, who said he found an abandoned baby near his home.
Liu said he had heard a faint but persistent cry around 4 a.m. Saturday but had not left the house to investigate.
“I thought it was a cat and came out only around 7 a.m. and saw him then,” he said.
Liu said he had followed the sound into an alley and found a newborn with an umbilical cord still attached. He was unclothed and wrapped only in a green bath towel, Liu said. [FULL STORY]
