Mother arrested for dumping newborn baby in Durban
On Wick Street in the Verulam CBD, a Reaction Officer on Bike Patrol saw the girl dangling on the edge of a manhole that led to a two-meter plunge into a storm water drain. After being saved, the youngster was sent quickly to a public hospital.
Mother arrested for dumping of newborn baby in Durban. Picture credit: X/@_ArriveAlive
JOHANNESBURG - About 17 hours after dumping her newborn in a stormwater drain, a 32-year-old foreign national was apprehended by Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA).
On Wick Street in the Verulam CBD, a reaction officer on bike patrol saw the girl dangling on the edge of a manhole that led to a two-meter plunge into a stormwater drain. After being saved, the youngster was sent quickly to a public hospital.
Following an anonymous tip from a medical facility to the RUSA Operations Center, the child's photo that was going around looked like a newborn who had been delivered by caesarean section.
Based on this information leads, reaction officers started pursuing the mother.
According to reports, she is a foreign national who relocated to South Africa two years ago from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. It was then learned that the woman planned to leave the country.
She was discovered in possession of her friend's passport. In her room, a plastic medical tag bearing the child's name was discovered.
"The woman revealed that she had entered the nation illegally in 2022 when questioned by a female Reaction Officer. She left her five- and eleven-year-old children in Maseru to look for work in South Africa. She fell pregnant with her third child while working as a machinist at a textile company. Her lover denied that she was the child's father during her pregnancy, claiming she had slept with other people," said in a statement.