A Father and Daughter Were on a Bicycle Ride When They Heard a Sound Coming From a Storm Drain That Made Them 'Sick

A father and daughter were getting in a morning bike ride Sunday when they heard a sound of a crying baby coming from a storm drain by the bike trail.

So the bicyclists and others hoisted the slab off the drain and saw a newborn boy almost 8 feet below, police in Blacktown, Australia, said.

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"We felt sick," Hayley Otte told CNN affiliate Seven Network. "We just wanted that baby to know...that it was OK."

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A 30-year-old woman the network said was the mother was refused bail after being charged with attempted murder; she's scheduled for a Monday court appearance.

Police told Seven Network that the newborn was squeezed through the drain's narrow opening Tuesday and dropped, just 24 hours after his birth — meaning he survived in the storm drain for five days.

The baby — who was in a serious but stable condition at a hospital, the network said — likely will become a ward of the state.

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Later Otte and her dad went to visit the newborn in the hospital and brought baby clothes.

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"He doesn't have family," Hayley Otte told Seven News, "so we wanted to try to give him as much as we can, to know that he's got something."

(H/T: CNN)