{"id":53165,"date":"2016-07-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/53165\/warning-graphic-content-middelburgs-killing-fields\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:47:07","slug":"warning-graphic-content-middelburgs-killing-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/23\/warning-graphic-content-middelburgs-killing-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning – Graphic content: Middelburg’s killing fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are now on the hunt for the mothers, to bring them to book, as deterrent to others contemplating infant abandonment.<\/p>\n

The discovery of the foetuses, last Thursday, Friday and this week Tuesday, has rattled the community to such an extent that a number of local women have already committed to the establishment of a Door of Hope project in Middelburg.<\/p>\n

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A foetus found in a CBD dumpster in 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

www.mobserver.co.za has reported on a number of similar cases every year.<\/p>\n

The following timeline is a graphic account of the lengths women will go to, to sidestep the responsibility of parenthood.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2012 – Two foetuses were found dumped in Middelburg town, one in a dumpster in the vicinity of Rex Cafe, and the other drifting in a bucket in Athlone Dam.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2014 – Baby X is discovered, wrapped in newspaper, next to the railway line by a passing teenager. The baby survived and has since been adopted.<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a>
Baby X, found in 2014, survived being dumped between building rubble and rubbish heaps by her mother.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2022 2016 – Three babies are found in six days. Two of them, one estimated at eight month\u2019s gestation, and the other a full term baby, was found on the dumping site. The last one was discovered by primary school children next to a footpath used by hundreds of pedestrians each day.<\/p>\n

The local Umephi House, is presently the only 24-hour safe haven for crisis babies, though access is strictly forbidden to the public.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This fully developed foetus was found inside a drifting bucket in Athlone Dam in 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The orphanage cares for the babies up to the age of two-years, after which they are placed back into the system.<\/p>\n

Many however find happy homes through adoption.<\/p>\n

Umephi House welfare worker, Ms Sumari Rootman, urge all women with unwanted pregnancies to contact her for assistance, before a crime of concealment, illegal abortion or abandonment will be considered.<\/p>\n

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