Here’s the Video of a New Born Baby Who Was Found Dead in a Garbage Heap!

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A newborn baby was found dead in a garbage dump. Abandoned infants are sometimes recovered from junkyards and isolated places where parents feel the risk of being captured by police is low. Statistics have revealed that a total of 45 bodies have been recovered from Punjab in 2014 alone while the ratio of female infants is higher as compared to male infants. In Pakistan, the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law.

More than 1,000 infants – most of the girls – were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan in 2010 according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation. Recently a video went viral on Facebook where a woman was performing the rituals of burying the kid. Sources said the kid died out in the open because of cold and hunger.

Here is the video…

The person who made the video claims the kid was thrown by the locals of the city and further requested people to not commit such acts. These incidents are occurring more and more every day. Most children found are less than a week old. Abortion is prohibited in Pakistan, except when the mother’s life is at risk from her pregnancy, but advocates say that legalization would reduce infanticide and save mothers from potentially fatal back-street terminations.

According to Pakistani law, anyone found to have abandoned an infant can be jailed for seven years, while anyone guilty of secretly burying a child can be imprisoned for two years. Murder is punishable with life imprisonment. But crimes of infanticide are rarely prosecuted.

Last year in July, the police rescued a four-day-old baby after he was reportedly sold by his father for Rs 15,000 in Tando Allahyar. The child’s mother had claimed that her husband, Abdul Ghafoor Qambrani, was an addict, who sold their newborn baby for money to buy drugs.  It is illegal to buy a baby or adopt one without fulfilling legal formalities. Incidents of dumping newborns on garbage dumps and selling them are not uncommon in Pakistan.

But what troubles people most is the overwhelming proportion of poor baby girls who are abandoned by couples who show a traditional preference for male children, who are assumed to have the earning potential to provide parents with old-age security.  If adopted, the child rarely learns of their early ordeal as parents fear the overwhelmingly negative social stigma attached to adoption. Social workers cite many reasons, such as rape and socially taboo pre-marital relations and inability to provide basic necessities, for the abandoned babies.