Newborn baby survives after mother dumped him in 8ft deep drain for 5 days

This newborn baby boy survived five days with no food or water in a roadside drain

A 30-year-old Australian has been charged with trying to kill her newborn son by abandoning him in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries, police said Monday.
The week-old baby was in serious but stable condition in Westmead Children's Hospital a day after cyclists found him in a 2.5-meter (8-foot) deep drain beside the M7 Motorway in the Sydney suburb of Quakers Hill, police said in a statement.
He was malnourished and dehydrated but had no apparent physical injury, police have said.

 His mother, Saifale Nai, has been charged with trying to kill him. She did not appear in court to answer the attempted murder charge and her lawyer did not enter a plea on her behalf.
Nai was refused bail and will remain in custody until her next court appearance on Friday. She would face a potential maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if convicted.

The baby had been squeezed into this drain from where he dropped a distance of 8ft

 Helen Polley, a senator in the opposition Labor Party, said the near-tragedy could have been avoided if emergency hatches were rolled out at Australian hospitals, police and fire stations where babies could be safely abandoned.
She called for the repeal of laws that make child abandonment a criminal offense, which she said encourage the problem to be hidden.
Cyclists riding along a bicycle lane beside the motorway heard the baby on Sunday morning.
"We actually thought it was a kitten at first, but when we went down there we could hear exactly what it was — you could definitely tell it was a baby screaming," cyclist David Otte told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
It took six men, including three police officers, to lift the 200kg concrete lid that covered the drain, the newspaper said.
Police suspect the baby was squeezed through the drain's narrow opening and dropped to the bottom.
Hewas found wrapped in a hospital blanket, and police used hospital records to find the mother.
The baby is likely to be taken into state care when he is discharged from the hospital, officials said

Culled from HUFF POST