{"id":141169,"date":"2016-12-21T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141169\/mother-charged-after-babys-death\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T06:56:35","slug":"mother-charged-after-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/21\/mother-charged-after-babys-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged after baby\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old woman from the Mavimbela Section, in Katlehong, was arrested recently by the Katlehong police for child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after one of the woman\u2019s three-month-old babies died after allegedly being left alone in a shack while she went drinking.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that the woman decided to take only one of the baby girls with her when she went drinking at a local tavern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe left the second baby locked in the shack and when she returned the next morning she found the baby dead and partially eaten by rats,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, from the Ekurhuleni West Cluster.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police were informed about the incident and the woman was arrested for child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remaining child has been sent to live with her father,\u201d Ndobe said.<\/p>\n<p>Police continue to investigate the circumstances of the child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The accused appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court where the cast was postponed for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140665\/woman-beaten-with-knobkerrie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woman beaten with knobkerrie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140448\/man-beaten-by-community-after-alleged-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man beaten by community after alleged robbery<\/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='8a122d7294a0c979e31bc3616d5f52a3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged with child neglect after allegedly leaving one of her three-month-old twins locked in a shack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141170,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-141169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169","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=141169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}