Now days couriers are used for almost everything to send but in China it was used for bizarre thing, in a tragic incident one woman in Fuzhou appears to have taken things just a bit too far by attempting to mail her newborn to the local orphanage. The mother, whose surname is Luo, admitted to wrapping her daughter in a plastic bag. She is currently under custody for suspected child abandonment, according to the local police blog. The baby is in stable condition at a hospital. The delivery driver who found the infant was midway through his route in Fuzhou, China’s Jin’an District when he was startled by shrieks from a package, CNN reports.
Video has gone viral on Chinese social media showing a crowd gathering around the newborn while the courier waited for authorities to arrive. On that afternoon, the weather in Fuzhou was particularly hot, a blistering 37 degrees Celsius, and bystanders are seen trying to keep the infant hydrated. Meanwhile, the mother, a 24-year-old woman from Sichuan surnamed Luo, has been arrested by police for abandoning her baby. The incident has quickly become one of the most discussed stories on Chinese social media with many netizens calling for harsh punishments to be meted out against the delinquent mom. “What a heartless woman. She should be wrapped up in black plastic bags and left to die out under the sun,” proposed one Weibo user.