{"id":39790,"date":"2015-12-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/39790\/missing-mother-abandons-baby\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:26:40","slug":"missing-mother-abandons-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/24\/missing-mother-abandons-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing mother abandons baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast Police are on the lookout for the mother of the infant who was left unattended on 5 December 2015 at Siyathuthuka next to the coal yard&#8217;s kraals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were called to the scene of crime by community members where a baby boy was found wrapped in a brown mat. The infant was then taken to HA Grove Hospital (Belfast) by EMS,&#8221; said Sergeant KC MacDonald, Communication Officer of Belfast Police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/39746\/nastional-news-newborn-found-in-pit-toilet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newborn found in pit-toilet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/21202\/a-to-z-on-baby-x\/\" target=\"_blank\">A to Z on Baby X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32324\/police-no-closer-to-finding-mothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police no closer to finding mother<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/31971\/new-born-found-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">New born baby found dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18403\/babatjie-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Warning Graphic Content): Baby dumped by mother survived unscathed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/13548\/baby-found-in-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby found in bag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18451\/voor-die-wind-met-koningskind\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Voor die wind met Koningskind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18738\/baby-x-in-place-of-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Baby X in place of safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18507\/video-hero-in-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: The baby\u2019s hero in blue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast Police are on the lookout for the mother of the infant who was left unattended on 5 December 2015 at Siyathuthuka next to the coal yard&#8217;s kraals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":39791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39790","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=39790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}