SIDON, Lebanon: Upon unraveling a black garbage bag in Sidon’s landfill Thursday, an employee was shocked to find an aborted premature male fetus.
Fayez Majzoub was sorting garbage in Sidon’s landfill, separating plastics from glass, when the contents of a garbage bag he had ripped open revealed a dead fetus among the trash.
“I have kids, who would ever commit this grievous crime,” he told The Daily Star.
The landfills administration was quick to notify security forces, who took the body to Sidon’s public hospital.
Doctors in the state-owned hospital inspected the fetus while forensic experts collected samples for DNA testing.
Dr. Afif Khafaja, the presiding physician, inspected the corpse only to find that the skin had been scraped off its head and the intestines were removed.
The physician said that the fetus was premature, only 6 to 7 months old, and was illegally aborted.
The physical marks on the head and body indicated that the abortion was not carried out by a trained physician, Khafaj said.
Upon investigating the motives behind the abortion, the doctor said that the fetus' legs were missing bones, attributing the condition to a disability.
Khafaj assumed that the parents probably carried out a quick and unprofessional abortion when preliminary tests revealed that the mother was carrying a disabled child.
Authorities are investigating to uncover the identity of the parents.
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