Two-day-old Baby Boy Found Wrapped in Plastic Bags inside the Drains In Alicante, Spain

What is happening to these young mothers?  A big question! A baby boy was found in a sewer pipe last month in China another trying to flush her new born somewhere in Nigeria now a mother is arrested after the two-day-old boy is found wrapped in plastic bags inside the drains of a building.A baby boy, just two-days, old, has been rescued from inside a building's drains in the eastern Spanish city of Alicante.

The newborn’s 26-year-old mother has been arrested on charges of attempted murder, according to the Interior Ministry.

The boy, who still had his umbilical cord attached, was found wrapped in plastic bags.

He had been trapped at a point where the building's drains converged into a one-square-metre manhole in a courtyard.

The baby, who weighed 2.1kg (4.6 pounds), was reported in a serious but not life-threatening condition in hospital.

He had suffered a fracture to a bone in one arm. The baby had other injuries which have yet to be detailed.

According to investigators, the woman had been admitted to Alicante's General Hospital on June 21 where she told medical staff she had suffered a miscarriage.

She told police, who went to the hospital to question her, that she had tried to get rid of the baby but had not had enough money to pay for an abortion.

Investigators were also trying to determine whether she acted alone or if a third party could have been involved in the ditching of the baby in the building's communal drains.

Last month, rescue workers in eastern China had to extract a newborn baby boy who had become stuck in a sewer pipe when his mother tried to give birth in secret.