{"id":68896,"date":"2017-06-26T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=68896"},"modified":"2017-06-28T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:54:38","slug":"video-heartbreaking-discovery-baby-girl-dumped-death-garden-refuse-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/26\/video-heartbreaking-discovery-baby-girl-dumped-death-garden-refuse-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Heartbreaking discovery of baby girl dumped for death in garden refuse bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery was made by a woman who was searching for a plastic bag in die bin where the bloody bundle lay wrapped face down in her mother\u2019s pink night gown.<\/p>\n<p>According to paramedics who declared the baby girl dead on the scene, she may have survived if she had not been dumped face down into garden refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/55672\/video-shows-how-baby-was-dumped\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video shows how baby was dumped<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/55506\/warning-graphic-five-babies-dumped-in-less-than-two-months\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warning Graphic: Five babies dumped in less then two months<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/54319\/police-finally-make-arrest-after-latest-discovery-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Police finally make arrest after latest discovery<\/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>Members of the public reacted with anger and sadness over the latest discovery.<\/p>\n<p>One, Ms Karen Loesch, principal of the Greater Middelburg Centre for the Disabled was so emotionally taken aback that she sunk to her knees and cried.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby girl dumped for death, Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-SyyMVVLio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The matter was reported by OK Grocer staff.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy will be done to determine the exact cause of death, and charges other than concealment of birth may be added to the charge sheet once results are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a white full term baby girl was found dumped in a refuse bin in Joubert Street last Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":68897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}