New-born dumped outside Durban North baby home
The baby was covered in a dirty blanket and left outside the gate.
A NEW-BORN baby was found dumped outside The Domino Babies Home on Adelaide Tambo (formerly Kensington Drive) just after midnight on Monday.
Staff at the home heard a baby crying. The sound was coming from outside the front gate. The baby girl, estimated to be a week old, was wrapped in a dirty blanket, had a cloth nappy and had a piece of string tied around its umbilical cord.
“I don’t think whoever left the little girl outside our premises was aware of the baby safe. Our crisis care parents heard her crying and came out to investigate. She was a little cold and taken to the hospital and given a check up,” explained Melanie Turner, project leader at the Domino Babies Home.
“Child welfare has placed the little girl in our care and she is doing well and healthy.”
When a baby is placed inside the safe a sensor immediately goes off notifying three people at the babies home. The baby is then removed from the box immediately and the home alerts the police, doctors and welfare.
