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  • An electronic safe box in which infants can be left. The door triggers an SMS which is sent to several staff members. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/EWN.

    'Substance abuse linked to child abandonment'

    Child Welfare says seven children have been abandoned in the city so far this year compared to 19 last year.

    2503 days ago
  • Cots at the Fikelela Children's Centre, where up to 40 children can be cared for at any one time. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/EWN.

    What happens to SA's abandoned babies?

    Stories of abandoned babies often make news, but less is known about what happens to them afterwards.

    2503 days ago
  • FILE: Cape Town Child Welfare Society spokesperson says babies are abandoned due to poverty, hidden pregnancies, single motherhood, and teenage pregnancies. Picture: Stock.XCHNG

    Parents urged to seek help, not abandon babies

    This week a three- month-old baby girl was found on an open field in Woodlands, Mitchells Plain.

    2555 days ago
  • Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor. Picture: Aletta Gardner/EWN

    Minister condemns burning of baby

    Paramedics say the baby was wrapped in a cloth and put inside a plastic bag then set alight.

    3275 days ago
  • FILE: A baby's hand. Picture: sxc.hu

    Baby burnt to death

    Paramedics say the baby was wrapped in a cloth and put inside a plastic bag then set alight.

    3275 days ago
  • FILE: Child Protection Week 2012. Picture: GCIS

    Underage sex workers found in PTA

    EWN learnt that 13-year-old sex workers regularly work the streets of Sunnyside and Arcadia.

    3278 days ago
  • Western Cape Social Development MEC Albert Fritz has appealed to young women to seek the province's help.

    Don't dump your babies, pleads MEC

    Albert Fritz has appealed to desperate mothers to seek the province's help.

    3286 days ago
  • Police are appealing to the public to help find the parents of babies that were abandoned. Picture: Sxc.hu

    Outrage after baby found in fridge

    Police are appealing to the public to help find the parents of babies that were abandoned.

    3299 days ago
  • The baby was found in a fridge in a residential yard with its umbilical cord still attached. Picture: Sxc.hu.

    Newborn found alive in fridge

    The baby was found in a fridge in a residential yard with its umbilical cord still attached.

    3300 days ago
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