Life does not come much cheaper than this, this is what happens when you're not born a baby boy in China. China ' One Child Per Family' policy has become widely known since being introduced as a population control measure in 1979, but few people realise the extreme measures employed to enforce it in some regions. Some parents only crime was to have too many children -their punishment was to see their new-born baby snatched from their arms and killed. The pressure to have boys has resulted in millions of women aborting or "losing" female babies resulting in an imbalance between the sexes and a desperate shortage of partners and wives.

This is the chilling eye witness account of the horrific story surrounding a baby girl that was dumped on a street in a central Chinese province recently. The person who took these photographs and who is still terrified of being identified, was apprehended after repeatedly calling the police to do something. The police's only concern was that the person had taken pictures.

"On a busy main-road in the centre of a town in a central Chinese Province. It was about 7 AM the baby girl was lying naked in the road-side, close to a small police-station. The baby was lying on what looked like waste material from a hospital, test-tubes and gauze. It was very, very cold just 2 ­ 3 degrees. I touched the skin of the baby and it was still warm. I think that the baby was dead ­ it had just died. There was warm blood still coming out of the babies nose. I do not know where the baby came from. All I know was that the baby was recently dumped there. There were no hospitals nearby but there was a long distance bus station and a police office close-by. I called the police as soon as I saw the baby. I dialled the emergency number 110 but nobody came.

Many, many people passed the baby that was lying in the gutter. It was early and people were on their way to work. Some stopped to look but most ignored the baby. It was near the government
tax office ­so many government workers were passing the baby.

One person even stopped to repair his bicycle about three or four meters from the baby but ignored it. Two policeman passed the baby but they did not care. I was very concerned but the police did not come. I wanted to pick-up the baby but I thought that the police would want to record the baby exactly as it was when it had died.

I waited for three hours and 40 minutes -the police still did not arrive. One lady put some thing to cover the baby. I was afraid that one of the big busses that were passing by may hit the baby. In the end an old man put the baby in a box and dumped it in a rubbish bin. Then the police came and they arrested me. I took some pictures because it was so terrible. Someone told the police and the police were more worried about my photographs than the baby. I was in the police station for one hour. They wanted all of my film and my identification papers. When I gave them some film they let me go."