A rose among the thorns: Abandoned baby girl is rescued after she is found abandoned in a prickly bush and left for dead in India
- The newborn baby was thrown into a thorny bush in the Gujarat state of India
- It is believed the girl was abandoned by her parents because she was not a boy
- Doctors have now removed all the thorns from her body and treated her wounds
- Baby girls are often considered a financial burden in the poorer parts of India
A newborn baby girl survived being thrown into a thorny bush in what is suspected to be a case of parents abandoning a female child because they wanted a boy.
The little girl was found lying under the bush, covered in scratches, in the city of Una in western India's Gujurat state.
It is believed that the case is the latest tragic example of baby girls being rejected by their families in India.
The newborn baby was rescued after her cries were overheard by a passerby who went to investigate.
Pictured: The helpless little girl lying in a bush in India before being rescued when she was overheard crying
Pictured: The newborn baby girl, whose face is still bloody, after being rescued from a thorny bush in India's Gujarat state
The little girl was found lying on the ground at the foot of the bush, bleeding from several places where the thorns had pierced her tender skin.
The passerby alerted emergency services and an ambulance quickly arrived on the scene to take the baby to a hospital to be checked over by doctors.
Doctors said the baby would have died had she not been found by the passerby.
Medics carefully pulled the thorns from her body before cleaning her up and making sure that she was fed.
Police have launched a search for the baby's parents who they believe deliberately dumped her in the bushes. Pictured: The little girl, whose condition is now described as stable
They later said that she was recovering from her injuries and described her condition as stable.
Police have launched a search for the baby's parents who they believe deliberately dumped her in the bushes.
Baby girls are considered a curse and a financial burden in many poor areas of India.
Families fear having to pay expensive dowries for their weddings, while boys are usually counted upon to take care of their parents in their old age.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates up to 50 million girls and women are missing in India's population as a result of infanticide and sex selective abortions.
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