A 36-year-old woman appeared before Witbank Magistrate’s Court, facing a charge of concealment of birth.
The woman appeared in court on January 7 after she allegedly dumped a fetus next to a rubbish bin.
Her appearance follows an incident that took place at Ackerville where police were summoned to a scene after the fetus was found.
Police found a man standing next to a rubbish bin and he told them that he was busy in the rubbish bin when he noticed a strange plastic bag.
“He then investigated further, only to find a shoebox and inside it, a fetus wrapped in another plastic bag,” said Captain Elizabeth Mkaudi, Vosman police spokesperson.
Police immediately investigated the matter and located the suspect who is staying near the place where the discovery was made.
The station commander of Vosman, Brigadier Lindani Ndlovu has cautioned the community not to commit illegal abortions as this is not the first time that the community discovered fetuses in the Vosman policing area.
He made an earnest call to the families of people who are noticed being pregnant but all of a sudden, the baby is not seen, to report such people to the police.
Late last year a baby was found buried in the back of a yard in Ga-Nala.
The six-month-old fetus was found buried in a shallow grave.
This gruesome discovery was made when police received information about an aborted baby that was buried in the yard in Thubelihle where his mother stays.
Kriel SAPS found the 31-year-old mother inside her bedroom on December 17.
“She was very sick and weak,” Kriel police spokesperson Const Angel Makubu said.
Const Makubu said that the mother told police that she drank an abortion pill which she bought from a Nigerian man in eMalahleni.
After a few hours, she felt the pains in her womb and she drank a cold drink and headache tabled on December 14 and in the early hours of December 14 she gave birth to a baby boy who was allegedly already dead.
A few hours later she allegedly wrapped the baby boy in a black plastic bag and two blankets and buried him in a shallow grave in the corner of her yard.
Police in Ga-Nala is also investigating the concealment of birth case.
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