{"id":13772,"date":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/13772\/charges-withdrawn-against-mother\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:00:44","slug":"charges-withdrawn-against-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/04\/charges-withdrawn-against-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Charges withdrawn against mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to W\/O Salome Mzimba the results show that the baby died before birth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/13548\/baby-found-in-bag\/\">This means that the mother will not be charged with murder.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concealment of birth docket has been closed because the Middelburg Police felt that evidence that will secure a conviction does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is originally from Marikana, cannot be named because she did not appear in court and the charge against her was withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>She has since been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman whose dead baby was found hidden in her handbag, has been released after post mortem results has been obtained by the Middelburg Police.<\/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":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[1812,1736,1813,1739,1478,1740],"class_list":["post-13772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baby","tag-baby-in-a-bag","tag-charges-dropped","tag-marikana","tag-middelburg-police","tag-new-born-baby"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["baby","Baby in a bag","Charges dropped","Marikana","Middelburg Police","new born baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772","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=13772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/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=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}