Aizawl, May 7 : A 16-year-old girl gave birth to a baby in the toilet of the Presbyterian Church Hospital at Dartlung near here and abandoned the newborn there.
The infant, a male child, was born on Tuesday last week and the nurses found it some hours later after hearing his cries, the hospital sources said today.
The infant was found wrapped in a wet cloth and was a premature one.
It took the hospital authorities some time to identify the mother till the nurses recalled that the girl, a student of class X who claimed that she was having a stomach ache, had entered the toilet after having analgesics.
The hospital, however, could not explain how none could detect the condition of the girl, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
The girl was tracked own to her home in the village, about 8 km from here, and persuaded to confess, the sources said.
The infant is now being taken care of by the hospital and is in an incubator.
PTI
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