A REACTION Unit South Africa officer is pictured with the 24-year-old woman who has been accused of abandoning her baby near a restaurant in the Verulam area. This is one of several child abandonment cases that have been reported this year. Reaction Unit South AfricaRusa had obtained CCTV footage showing the mother abandoning the baby and had circulated it on social media, asking the public to help identify and find the woman.
Rusa boss Prem Balram said: “Through a network of informers, Reaction officers received information regarding the suspect’s home in Zwelisha. The woman has an older child, a boy, by a different man. The boy lives with his father and his grandparents.Police spokesperson Captain Thembeka Mbele said the woman would be appearing in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court soon.Nokuthula Khanyile, head of the Social Development Department, said they were unaware of the incident but would be investigating it.
Earlier this year, a mother was released on R5000 bail and stands accused of dumping her newborn baby girl in a stormwater drain in Newlands East. The little girl is in the care of her biological father and his wife. The suspect is expected to return to court in the next few weeks.
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