Two-month-old boy is abandoned by his mother in the snow on a -28C day because she wanted a daughter. The mother told reporters that she was disappointed that her third child turned out to be a boy & the family could not afford to raise him.

tenchineuro · 2019-01-03T19:59:43+00:00

A woman who was desperate for a daughter has been detained by police for abandoning her newborn son in a park in north China.

The baby boy, who is only two months old, was discovered by a passer-by in a park on Christmas Eve in Heilongjiang province, where temperatures dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius.

The mother, surnamed Zhang, told reporters that she was disappointed that her third child turned out to be a son as well and the family could not afford to raise him.

So they could afford to raise a girl but not a boy???

They finally apprehended the boy's mother, surnamed Zhang, on December 26 at about 10am on suspicion of child abandonment, according to Kan Kan News.

So they don't name her. I can't tell if that's the Kan Kan News (don't speak Chinese) or the dailymail. Google Translate gives a rather confusing translation.

The police handling the case investigated and intercepted the surveillance video in the jurisdiction, and finally locked the suspect Zhang. At about 10 am on December 26, the police arrested him at Zhang’s home. It is understood that the suspect Zhang is the baby's biological mother, there are already two boys in the family, and in November, a baby boy was born in the Tahe County People's Hospital.

It looks like the Chinese source did not name the mother.