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Body of newborn baby found in Saitama river

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The body of a newborn baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached was found floating in the Arakawa River in Toda, Saitama Prefecture, on Saturday morning.

According to police, the infant was found 10 meters from shore at around 6:40 a.m. by a man operating a motorboat, Fuji TV reported. He called 110.

Police said there were no signs of external injury on the baby and said they do not know where he was dumped in the river and how far he might have floated before being spotted.

Police said the person or persons responsible face a charge of abandoning a body.

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Hello there, no external wounds means it was not a psycho mother, but a distraught mother. I wonder WHO could do something to release the society of such a strain of finding floating babies once a month, oh my bewildering pounding...

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Absolutely disgusting! There are so many people in this world who long to have children and are unable to and this animal just tossed the baby in the river like food scraps! No sympathy or excuse for the mother!

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Tragic. We need a lot better support groups in Japan.

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This is very sad.

5 ( +5 / -0 )

Very sad to read.... poor child...

No sympathy or excuse for the mother!

Agree disillusioned, except we don’t know the mother’s role here yet.

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My thoughts go out to the poor woman who must have been so desperate to do this.

We do not yet know what horrors she endured for this tragedy to take place.

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Baby hatches, support groups, subsidies, free contraception...this needs to be dealt with.

My heart goes out to the mother. I hope she has some kind of emotional and medical support. I think charging her with murder is not helpful. But, she did do a bad thing...

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Distraught mother.

It is what female animals do when situation demands it.

Since support and understanding/compassion is very low in Japan, no wonder you get so sad stories.

Was it a flush in the toilet or a direct throw of baby in the river. Last idea is totally gruesome.

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RIP

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When she's caught, I bet she'll claim he was stillborn

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Also please bear in mind that the action of throwing baby in the river could be well done by a male represantative of this ... species. After seeing everyone blame the mother I thought the information was insufficient to suggest she did it herself.

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'Abandoned body' I hope his carries the same wait as murder because that's what this is.

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