{"id":112253,"date":"2016-01-29T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112253\/teenage-mom-appears-in-court-for-babys-murder\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:28:04","slug":"teenage-mom-appears-in-court-for-babys-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/29\/teenage-mom-appears-in-court-for-babys-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage mom appears in court for baby\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police have arrested the 16-year-old mother of the baby (four months) found dead in a shack, recently (GCN, January 29).<\/p>\n<p>The mother was arrested, last Tuesday evening, after she voluntarily went back to her home.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The baby girl\u2019s body was discovered by a nine-year-old girl in a shack in the Ndlazi Section of Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>Capt Mega Ndobe, communications officer for the Katlehong police, said, \u201cThe police were informed of her arrival and she was arrested.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was discovered that the mother was aware of her baby\u2019s problem and\/or death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the investigation revealed that she was aware of what was happening to her baby, she will be charged with murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the teenager left her baby girl on the bed lying face downwards and was fully aware that she couldn\u2019t breathe or turn herself sideways to try and breathe.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court on Wednesday and was charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The case was postponed for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/111837\/baby-found-dead-in-shack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby found dead in shack<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='930f9c807f4df927194f2711ef6a3890'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young mother of the four-month-old baby found dead in a shack in Katlehong has appeared in court for murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":112284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[6892,989,979,969,1015,9572,2734,1563,999],"class_list":["post-112253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baby","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["baby","crime","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","katlehong police. saps","melissa hart","murder","police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}