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/ Courtesy of CEN |
Nurses at a hospital in China's southern city of Shenzhen found Li Zhenghua, 24, trying to eat her baby's arms three days after the birth.
"It was really shocking _ the arm was bruised and bleeding heavily," a hospital spokesperson.
Doctors had to sedate the woman so she would let go of the child, which was moved to a secure location.
Police learned that Li's mother-in-law had thrown the pregnant woman out because she was acting strangely. Li had been living on the streets for at least several weeks before she was found in labor, and then taken to hospital.
Police are investigating whether the baby should be taken into foster care.