The Ikageng Police are investigating a case of concealment of birth after another discovery of a two-week-old baby at the Promosa dumping site, last Thursday.
According to Sgt Kelebogile Trom, the Ikageng police spokesperson, at about 07:56 on Thursday police received a call from one of the workers at the dumping site.
‘On their arrival, the worker showed them a baby lying on the ground. Next to the baby was the baby’s hand,’ she said.
Trom says the ambulance and other relevant personnel were called to the scene. The suspect is still unknown. Trom urged any community members who may have information about the mother of the baby to please come forward and report it to the police.
On 27 June this year, a passer-by discovered a fully developed baby girl in the veld in Promosa. At that time the police reported that the little body, with the umbilical cord still attached, was in an orange plastic bag next to a pink, blood-stained nightdress.
Another gruesome discovery was on 6 August last year in the desolate bushes of Montana and Manchester streets in Promosa. The Herald carried the story of a premature baby in a plastic bag, dumped in the bushes. The placenta was found in a grey plastic bag.
A few kilometres from Promosa in Greenfield, on 14 January this year, a foetus was discovered in the road. According to WO Ishmael Mohutsiwa, a group of people called the Ikageng SAPS to the scene. According to them, they could only make out the head of the tiny bundle. When one woman at the scene realised what it was, she took a shovel and moved it onto the grass on the side of the road, out of the view of children. Mohutsiwa said the developing baby may have been less than two months old.
