Mother charged with attempted murder of her newborn baby

A 30-year-old woman has been charged with the attempted murder of her newborn son who was allegedly abandoned in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries.

The week-old baby was in a serious but stable condition in Sydney’s Westmead Children’s Hospital, a day after a group of cyclists found him in a 8ft deep drain beside the M7 Motorway in the Sydney suburb of Quakers Hill, police said.