{"id":70188,"date":"2017-08-02T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/70188\/baby-girl-found-inside-refuse-bin-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:11:08","slug":"baby-girl-found-inside-refuse-bin-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/02\/baby-girl-found-inside-refuse-bin-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Baby girl found inside refuse bin laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A name has not been chosen by Reverend Kokkie Smit and his congregation yet.<\/p>\n

The autopsy on the girl was finalized last week and her body is now ready to be released to Roseleigh Funeral Services who agreed to handle the logistics.<\/p>\n

The infant will be cremated following a memorial service for her led by Reverend Smit.<\/p>\n

Reverend Smit met with the detective services on Monday to receive the go ahead for the memorial and cremation from the investigating officer.<\/p>\n

The case is still open and under investigation.<\/p>\n

Read related news here:<\/p>\n

Please Help: Community urged to assist with choosing a name for girlchild in the refuse bin<\/a><\/p>\n

Video shows how baby was dumped<\/a><\/p>\n

Warning Graphic: Five babies dumped in less then two months<\/a><\/p>\n

Update: Police finally make arrest after latest discovery<\/a><\/p>\n

New born baby found dead<\/a><\/p>\n

Details about the memorial service will be published in Friday’s edition of the Middelburg Observer.<\/p>\n

The little girl was found dumped after birth still wrapped in her mother’s bloody night gown.<\/p>\n

An autopsy was done to determine whether she was alive when dumped face down into the bin.<\/p>\n

The autopsy report has however not been released by the pathologist yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The baby girl found dumped inside a garden refuse bin will soon be laid to rest by St John Presbyterian Church who offered to name and bury the baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70188","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=70188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}