India, Oct. 2 -- A three-day-old baby was abandoned by his parents over fear of losing a government job and was later found buried under a stone in a forest in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district.

His tiny body was bloodied, bitten by ants, and nearly crushed beneath a stone after the mother allegedly left the newborn to die because he was their fourth child, NDTV reported.

The baby's father, Bablu Dandoliya, is a government school teacher who was scared of losing his job due to government rules restricting employment for those with more than two children.

The couple kept the pregnancy a secret, as they already had three children.

The baby survived a night alone in the cold forest, suffering insect bites and hypothermia, before being...