The Daily Mail is reporting that the infant was found by a local resident in Ashan city in northeast China while he was searching through a garbage bin for recyclables. She was inside a plastic bag, so newborn that the placenta and umbilical cord were still attached.
"She was still breathing and had a heartbeat. Blood from the wound stained the whole body," said a resident who witnessed the baby being taken to a nearby hospital.
Doctors determined that the baby was born premature, between the ages of 32 and 34 weeks, weighing just three pounds. They closed a two-inch wound across her neck that was so deep it went down to her windpipe. Had it been any deeper, "she would have died instantly," they said.
The child remains in critical condition.
The baby is believed to be a victim of both the country's one-child policy and a culture in which parents prefer boys.
Doctors say the baby will be put in a children's home once she has recovered.
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