POSTED BY: Joling Chiong Hsiao Yuan

A newborn baby boy was found buried alive with a trash bag twisted like a rope around his neck in a rooftop garden of a Eunos Crescent block.

Retiree Tay Kim Sia, 60, was having a smoke atop multi-storey carpark Block 31A on Monday when he heard a mewing noise coming from the garden.

To his horror, he found a babyburied in a shallow grave. The infant's mouth was stuffed with mud and dried leaves, and he still had his umbilical cord attached.

The baby has since been taken to the KK women's and children's hospital and is in stable condition.

The police are trying to track down the baby's next of kin.

Tay said that he was smoking at the sixth-floor garden when he heard soft mews.

So,he hopped onto the waist-high planter and dug the baby out with his bare hands.

He then brought the baby into the Tembusu Senior Activity Centre on the same floor where the latter was cleaned and had the trash bag around his neck removed.

The senior citizens in the centre described the wide-eyed baby as dark-skinned, beautiful and healthy. It was also noted that he looked barely a few hours old.

Droplets of blood were discovered at a nearby stairwell, but it is not known if the baby was delivered there.

Police found some bloodied clothes, bunched up and hidden in the bushes just a few metres away from where the newborn was found.

Those found guilty of child abandonment can be jailed up to seven years and fined.

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