Body of dumped toddler’s ‘mother’ found

NEW Zealand police yesterday found the body of a young Asian woman in a car outside the home of a three-year old toddler, who was abandoned at a train station in Australia.

But police in New Zealand, Australia and the United States are still hunting for the girl’s father, who they believe caught a flight to Los Angeles after abandoning toddler Qian Xun Xue, nicknamed “Pumpkin”, in Melbourne.

Police stopped short of naming the dead woman as Anan Liu, the 27-year-old missing mother of the girl, but said they had informed the woman’s mother in China of the find and said they were treating the death as a homicide.