Durban - A two-week-old baby’s body was found on Thursday morning in a garbage bin just metres away from a newly-installed baby safe in Glenwood. This has led to the call for legalising anonymous abandonment - a safe haven law. Homeless people were rummaging in the bins on Helen Joseph Road yesterday at about 7am when they found the baby.
She said in a few weeks they planned on finalising the pamphlets and would try to get advertising in newspapers and on radio stations. When the baby safe was unveiled, co-founder Leanne Lorrance-Brown said in the Glenwood/Umbilo area they had had five abandoned babies since the start of the year, but only one was found alive. This was why they installed the baby safe in the area.
“What we should be doing is ensuring that there is a safe place for mothers who cannot take care of their children to hand them over to others to be sure that they will be well looked after and taken care of, for instance the safe haven law.
DailyNewsSA Hasn't this already been passed into law? I would have thought that with all the 'safe-havens' like Nkosi's haven and all the Mandela outreaches, this type of thing should have ceased. Some people are just evil and rotten to the core.
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