Buried living baby living underground recovers and police look for relatives

The baby with a few days of birth who they found buried alive in India, he is recovering satisfactorily, said one of his doctors Wednesday. Meanwhile, the police opened an investigation to find their parents.

The little girl had some days and barely 1.1 kg when he was found in a village in Uttar Pradesh, in the north of the country, a particularly poor area. In an unexpected moment, a man found her when he was going to bury his own daughter This is born dead.

Ravi Khanna, one of the doctors who cares for the baby, said at the AFP that the small patient is "out of danger" and has gained a lot of weight. "That's fine, respond to medication and it feeds, "he said.

The police are trying to detect recent maternity cases to find the mother and father. "An investigation was opened by attempt to assassinate, and endanger the life of the girl by unknown parents, "he told the AFPPradeep Singh, who runs the police procedure.

"A financial burden"

In Asia, girls are considered a financial burden for the family -for other things for the gifts that they must give to the parents of the young man who marries his daughters, while the boys are considered as a kind of family investment.

India has already passed tough laws to combat these practices. Since 1994, doctors have forbidden to communicate to parents the sex of their future babybut there are families who use other methods to find out and who abort if they know that they are expecting a baby.

A study published by the scientific journal The lancet in 2011 he concluded that in the previous three decades in India they practiced 12 million abortions female fetuses.