Mother quizzed over baby in drain

Police in Australia have questioned but not charged a 30-year-old woman whose newborn baby boy was found abandoned in a drain near a Sydney motorway.

The baby, who is only a few days old, is in a serious but stable condition in Sydney’s Westmead Children’s Hospital, police said in a statement.

The mother was taken to Blacktown Hospital in Sydney after being questioned by detectives, police said. There were no details released on her medical condition.