Newborn Girl Found Alive In Shallow Grave In India

[appalachiablue]

Source: BBC

A newborn baby girl has been discovered buried alive in northern India, a local police chief has revealed.

Abhinandan Singh told reporters the baby was found by a villager who was burying his own daughter, who had died minutes after birth. The baby girl, who had been placed inside an earthen pot about 3ft (90cm) below the ground, was rushed to hospital, where she is recovering.

Police have now launched an investigation into the incident. "We are trying to find the parents of the baby and we suspect that this must have happened with their consent," Mr Singh told reporters in the state of Uttar Pradesh. According to the police chief, the villager found the girl by accident as he dug a grave in a burial ground for his own daughter.

"As they were digging a grave for her, at a depth of three feet, the spade hit an earthen pot, which was pulled out. There was a baby lying in it," Mr Singh explained. "The police took the baby to the city hospital where she is getting treatment."

India's gender ratio is one of the worst in the world. Women are often discriminated against socially and girls are seen as a financial burden, particularly among poor communities.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50038657

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The Guardian: Female infanticide has become widespread in India because of parents’ preferences for sons – who are viewed as investments and heirs – while girls are seen as a liability. Prenatal sex determination was outlawed in 1994 but families still use illegal methods or devices to discover the gender and terminate pregnancies for unwanted female offspring.
A 2011 study in the British medical journal The Lancet found that up to 12 million girls had been aborted in the last three decades in India.

In January, a three-week old baby girl was found buried alive in Rajasthan state after locals heard her crying from a shallow grave, but died after a few weeks at a hospital. In 2017, police in western Maharashtra state recovered 19 female foetuses from a sewer near a clinic. A doctor was arrested and charged with illegally aborting female foetuses for parents desperate for a boy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/man-burying-daughter-finds-newborn-alive-in-indian-grave

[Coventina]

1. Female infanticide was so prevalent in early medieval Saudi Arabia, that the Qur'an

addresses it directly multiple times.

[appalachiablue]

2. That doesn't surprise me, sorry to say. Female infanticide

likely occurred on all continents in times past.

[Coventina]

3. Absolutely! It was also extremely common in ancient Greece and Rome.

Women have been treated poorly by just about every tribe and nation.

[appalachiablue]

5. Humans can be a wicked lot; women have suffered for so much

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Yeah, the Ancient Romans were a very cruel lot

They frequently just put their unwanted babies on the trash heap. Anyone could take the infant and raise it as their slave.

[democratisphere]

4. Humans will never be civilized. The past continues to be the present.

Humans never learn anything, especially from their mistakes and horrible deeds.

[appalachiablue]

6. Well I'm not too fond of humans, esp. lately. Flawed species

[democratisphere]

8. And failed species.

Hell bent on their own self-destruction, as well as the destruction of all environments and many other species.

[ArizonaLib]

7. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David (not to minimize this or any other tragedy)

"People are the worst!"

I am surprised God doesn't clean house every generation or so. She has to be fed up with us.

[democratisphere]

9. SHE is already in the process of cleaning house.

[ArizonaLib]

10. Yes - it is going to be epic

The 'house' is also self cleaning. Maybe that whole bit about 'my covenant with you is that I will never do this again' story about the flood meant that 'if it happens again, it will be because I let you do it to yourselves'.

[EllieBC]

12. For a while here you couldn't find out the sex

of your baby until after 24w. That’s because in BC we had a high rate of sex selective abortion, mostly of female fetuses. While it was mostly in the Indo-Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities, no one was allowed to find out unless you sought a private ultrasound.

[appalachiablue]

13. Thanks for mentioning, what a sickening reality.