{"id":105159,"date":"2019-11-14T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=105159"},"modified":"2019-11-15T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:45:42","slug":"dead-infant-found-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/14\/dead-infant-found-sewage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead infant found in sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When solid waste workers received a complaint of a blocked manhole, they would discover a lifeless body of a baby in the manhole.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was discovered shortly after 09:00 in Mhluzi.\u00a0It is not clear how long the dead baby had been in the sewage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/87263\/baby-abandoned-sex-worker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby abandoned by sex worker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mothers that do not want to keep their babies are urged to use the drop-off baby safes in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71719\/towns-first-baby-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first baby safe<\/a> was constructed at St John\u2019s Presbyterian Church following the discovery of a newborn baby girl in a garden refuse bin in Joubert Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mothers can also drop off their babies at the 24-hour Mhluzi Medical Centre on Dr Mandela Drive, which is where the second baby safe was placed.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70349\/baby-in-the-bin-madison-was-a-gift-from-god-will-find-final-resting-place-on-church-grounds\/<\/p>\n<p>The identity of any person dropping off a baby will be kept anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal spokesperson Prudence Magutle said solid waste workers continually have to retrieve foreign objects that have been thrown into the sewers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70188\/baby-girl-found-inside-refuse-bin-laid-to-rest\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Tshwete Local Municipality workers found a dead infant in a manhole behind Ekwazini Secondary School on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":105161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5477,9472,6866,21932,1976,21966,2973,2972],"class_list":["post-105159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baby-dumped","tag-baby-safe","tag-fetus","tag-infant-dead","tag-mhluzi","tag-middelburg","tag-municipality","tag-steve-tshwete"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["baby dumped","baby safe","fetus","infant dead","Mhluzi","middelburg","municipality","Steve Tshwete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}