VIDEO: Footage of Chinese Mother Abandoning Her Baby at a Car Park

This may sound harsh or even straight up mean, but some people should never be parents!

Surveillance cameras captured the moment a Chinese mother abandoned her own baby at a car park.

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The baby was in extreme danger as cars sped past.

While some women could only dream of becoming a mother, there are heartless people who choose to throw away their children because they suddenly felt that parenting is not for them.

Some mothers who abandoned their children claim that they could no longer support and raise their children because of poverty—but that does not excuse them from committing crimes against these helpless babies.

In an underground car park in Guiyang City, China’s Guizhou province, an unidentified woman can be seen abandoning a baby as traffic sped past. The child was alive, and was trying to crawl out of the roadside where his mother had left him.

Thankfully, a passerby comes to the child’s rescue as the footage cuts. According to reports, the passerby was an employee of the car park who had heard the child’s screams. She took the child to the police station.

Authorities are now looking for the child’s mother.

According to SOS USA, much progress for children has been achieved since the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. However, there are still major issues that children around the world face, including hunger, poverty, access to education and medical care. Orphaned and abandoned children are at particular risk.

It is estimated that 140 million children worldwide are orphans. (UNICEF).

Worldwide, there are 168 million who are child laborers, accounting for almost 11 percent of children (ILO).

124 million children and adolescents are out of school (UNESCO).

As of the start of 2014, 1 in 11 children of primary-school age is out of school, totaling 59 million children (UNICEF).

There are 62.8 million children worldwide who suffer from acute malnutrition (World Bank).

In 2014, 1 in 7 children were estimated to be underweight in less developed regions (WHO).

In 2014, about 16 percent—or 95 million children—of children under 5 who live in less developed regions were underweight (WHO).

Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year (UNICEF).

66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone (WHO).

In 2015, there were about 16,000 deaths every day of children under the age of five (WHO).

Leading causes of death in under-5 children are preterm birth complications, pneumonia, birth asphyxia, diarrhea and malaria. About 45% of all child deaths are linked to malnutrition (WHO).

2.7 million babies die every year in their first month of life and a similar number are stillborn (WHO).

5.9 million children under the age of 5 died in 2015, equivalent to 11 children every minute (UNICEF).

Children represent almost half of all people living in extreme poverty although they make up roughly a third of the world’s population (UNICEF).

There were 19.5 million refugees in 2015; half of them were children (UNHCR).

Children accounted for 27 percent of the more than 1 million refugees and migrants who entered Europe in 2015 (Europol).