A MOTHER who dumped her three-month-old baby girl with an apology letter appeared in the Verulam Magistrates Court on Thursday, 6 October for child abandonment.
It’s alleged that after the social media outcry of her abandoning her baby, the 23-year-old mother felt the pressure to hand herself over to the police on Wednesday night, 5 October.
She was charged with child abandonment and released on R500 bail.
The matter was postponed to 10 November.
The woman dumped her baby in the bush near the stream in Oaklands near Verulam, north of Durban on Monday, 4 October.
The baby girl was found by a man who went to the bush to pick mangoes and he called the paramedics.
The baby was dumped with her bottle of milk, a bag full of nappies, and an apology letter from the mother. The apology note asked that authorities be called in also stated that the system had failed her.
She asked not to be judged.
Prem Balram, spokesman of Reaction Unit South Africa, who were first on the scene, said the woman was arrested after she willingly handed herself to the police.
“The baby was given to social welfare and as far as I know she is still with them,” he said.
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KZN Social Development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza recently said mothers who continue to abandon children would face the might of the law.
KZN police spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala confirmed that cops arrested a 23-year-old woman for child abandonment, and she appeared in the Verulam Magistrates Court yesterday.
