Mystery surrounds Pretoria West dumped baby
Police could not be reached for comment regarding the baby that was found in a dustbin in Pretoria West.
Mystery still surrounds a baby that was found dead in a dustbin in Pretoria West on Saturday, near a block of flats on WF Nkomo Street.
On Monday, Pretoria West community policing forum (CPF) chairperson Thesigan Pillay said the baby’s mother was nowhere to be found.
“We have absolutely no knowledge of her whereabouts at this stage. It seems no one knows who’s responsible for dumping the boy.”
Pillay said the baby boy, who was less than a year old, was discovered by a resident.
On Wednesday, Captain Reed Steynberg of Pretoria West said she was not aware of the incident.
“I am not aware of such an incident and I am currently on leave for the next two weeks,” she said.
Attempts to speak to Pretoria West station commander on Wednesday were fruitless.
There has been a spate of baby-dumping in and around Pretoria in the past few months.
Last month, a dead foetus was found in a plastic bag dumped in Elandspoort.
According to Atteridgeville police, a woman, believed to be the mother, was interrogated but later released without charge.
Then Pillay said incidents of mothers dumping their babies were not something new in the community.
“We are urging the station commander and the Pretoria West police to do something to mothers who abandon their babies. We have had a few incidents like this and no one is being held accountable,” he said.
If mothers do not want to keep their babies, they can take them to the Tshwane Home of Hope in Sunnyside.
Tahiyya Hassim from the organisation said mothers could drop their babies anonymously anytime.
“Tshwane Home of Hope has erected a ‘baby wall’ in Sunnyside, where mothers who do not want their newborn babies can drop them off anonymously,” she said.
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