FIND: Abandoned Baby Happy now lost in the system
The staff at Happy Valley Educentre in Gillitts have arranged for Baby Happy to be placed in an orphanage in Underberg pending the department of social welfare's decision.
HIGHWAY Mail visited the Happy Valley Educentre in Gillitts earlier today to follow up on Baby Happy’s legal case regarding her placement in an orphanage.
Baby Happy, as nicknamed by the staff at the school, was found crawling on the pavement on 24 February by a motorist driving on Hamilton Crescent in Gillitts. She was immediately picked up and taken the Happy Valley Educentre.
Since then, Baby Happy has been placed in four different places of safety. It is alleged that the social welfare department was protesting due to a wage dispute yesterday, and all the children at the Zakhe Place of Safety in Clermont, where Baby Happy was last placed, had been moved to other facilities.
The two principals at Happy Valley Educentre, Michelle White and Amber Chipps, as well as teacher, Janine Parker, have been unable to discover where Baby Happy was taken to.
They are pleading to Baby Happy’s mother, relatives or anyone who can submit any form of identification to please contact the school urgently and this is what they had to say:
WATCH: Plea to help find Baby Happy
Highway Mail’s investigation continues. Read more in our next newspaper edition on Wednesday.
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