Mother left baby on plane after birth

A WOMAN who gave birth aboard an international flight without anyone noticing was charged by New Zealand police yesterday with abandoning her daughter after the newborn was found in a toilet garbage bin.

The unnamed 29-year-old Samoan mother walked off a Pacific Blue flight from Samoa to Auckland last Thursday after apparently giving birth during the flight.

Soon afterward, cleaners found the newborn child lying amid bloodied paper towels in a toilet bin.