A newborn baby girl who was found horrifically buried alive in an Indian forest has died of her injuries.

The baby was just one day old when she was found wrapped in a cloth and half buried under earth and gravel last week, in Mandleshwar forest, outside the city of Indore in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

She was rushed to a local government hospital with heavy bleeding from her nose and mouth but tragically died the following day from her injuries.









Police believe the baby was abandoned in yet another tragic case of the controversial female foeticide (the act of aborting a foetus because it is a female) and infanticide (the act of killing unwanted baby girl) crisis that is sweeping India.

Officer B Yadav, from Indore Police, said it is suspected the girl’s family had abandoned her and left her to die.


We were so shocked to see a baby moving, it was pretty devastating and we quickly informed the police. It’s amazing the baby survived as the area is crawling with wild hungry animals.’

Female Foeticide (the act of aborting a foetus because it is a female)is rife in India, as many families prefer having baby boys to girls. It’s a nation wide crisis and recent figures have estimated that there are now 750 females to every 1000 males in the country.

A UNICEF report in 2006 revealed that 10 million girls were killed - either before they were born or immediately after - by their parents from 1986 in India.

Last year, the medical journal Lancet stated that 500,000 girls in India were being lost annually through sex-selective abortions.






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I believe this is as a result of their marriage traditions. Parents don't want to bear the high cost of weddings.

honey86: I believe this is as a result of their marriage traditions. Parents don't want to bear the high cost of weddings.

hahahahaha. Wats wrong wth their marital traditn

The tradition requires that the bride's family pay the dowry. Those from the poor families can't afford this, so they resort to either aborting or killing the child. As a matter of fact gender scan is illegal in India. Doctors carry out ultrasounds to check for anomaly and all but they don't disclose the sex of the baby.

honey86: The tradition requires that the bride's family pay the dowry. Those from the poor families can't afford this, so they resort to either aborting or killing the child. As a matter of fact gender scan is illegal in India. Doctors carry out ultrasounds to check for anomaly and all but they don't disclose the sex of the baby.

how i wish 9ja was like dat...