A 22-year-old Chinese trainee on the government-sponsored technical intern program was given a suspended prison term Wednesday for abandoning her newborn son last December for fear of being sent back home.
Zhan Meijuan was sentenced to one year and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for leaving the infant wrapped in a blanket at a private residence in the neighborhood after giving birth at her home in Kawasaki, according to the ruling by the Kawasaki Branch of the Yokohama District Court.
The baby was taken into protective custody and is being raised at a home for infants, a group supporting Zhan said.