Post by cenydd on Aug 8, 2013 18:11:38 GMT
Police in China's northwestern Shaanxi province have rescued a newborn baby boy allegedly sold by an obstetrician, leading them to suspect the doctor scammed at least 10 more parents out of their newborns from the same hospital.
Surveillance footage from the lobby of the Fuping County Maternity Hospital in Shaanxi Province shows a middle-aged woman carrying a soundly sleeping newborn baby. Police alleage she snuck out of the hospital one night in mid-July and sold the baby to human traffickers. The woman carrying the baby was identified as Dr. Zhang Shuxia, 55, the deputy director of the hospital's maternity ward.
On July 16, 23-year-old mother Dong Shanshan gave birth to a baby boy at the hospital. But before she could catch even a glimpse of her child, he was taken away from her. Her doctor, Zhang Shuxia, kept her husband out of the delivery room, according to media reports. Zhang told him that both mother and child were infected with syphilis and hepatitis B. She persuaded the family that, since their baby had congenital illnesses, the best thing to do would be to give up their baby and trust her to "take care" of him.
Zhang is from the same village as the husband's family, and was in the same class with the husband's father in elementary school for five years. "Zhang was always the best student in my class, she was my friend. We chose this hospital because of her, two of my other grandchildren were delivered by her, and we trusted her," the husband's father told Southern Metropolitan daily Newspaper.
Surveillance footage from the lobby of the Fuping County Maternity Hospital in Shaanxi Province shows a middle-aged woman carrying a soundly sleeping newborn baby. Police alleage she snuck out of the hospital one night in mid-July and sold the baby to human traffickers. The woman carrying the baby was identified as Dr. Zhang Shuxia, 55, the deputy director of the hospital's maternity ward.
On July 16, 23-year-old mother Dong Shanshan gave birth to a baby boy at the hospital. But before she could catch even a glimpse of her child, he was taken away from her. Her doctor, Zhang Shuxia, kept her husband out of the delivery room, according to media reports. Zhang told him that both mother and child were infected with syphilis and hepatitis B. She persuaded the family that, since their baby had congenital illnesses, the best thing to do would be to give up their baby and trust her to "take care" of him.
Zhang is from the same village as the husband's family, and was in the same class with the husband's father in elementary school for five years. "Zhang was always the best student in my class, she was my friend. We chose this hospital because of her, two of my other grandchildren were delivered by her, and we trusted her," the husband's father told Southern Metropolitan daily Newspaper.
abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-obstetrician-allegedly-sells-babies/story?id=19903135
This is an absolutely horrific story. I can't image what all of those parents have gone through, nor how someone in such a position could abuse the trust placed in her to do something so awful.