{"id":13548,"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/13548\/baby-found-in-bag\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:39:29","slug":"baby-found-in-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/01\/baby-found-in-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby found in bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information the woman, who is allegedly from Marikana, was travelling in a taxi when her fellow passengers saw that she has started to bleed.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to the Middelburg Hospital where the doctor who examined her, found signs that she has recently given birth.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, whose name cannot be mentioned before she appears in court, denied being pregnant or giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>A bag belonging to the woman was searched and the naked body of a baby girl was found inside.<\/p>\n<p>The mother is currently under police guard at the Middelburg Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She is being charged with concealment of birth.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Khanyisile Zwane said that a post mortem will determine whether the baby was stillborn or whether she died after being born.<\/p>\n<p>If the latter is true, the woman might also face a charge of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corpse of a newborn baby girl was found in her mother&#8217;s handbag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":13614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1736,1737,9,1739,1243,1636,1740,1738],"class_list":["post-13548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baby-in-a-bag","tag-child-abuse","tag-local-crime-news","tag-marikana","tag-middelburg-hospital","tag-murder","tag-new-born-baby","tag-taxi"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Baby in a bag","child abuse","Crime","Marikana","Middelburg Hospital","murder","new born baby","taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}