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Charlene Saaiman shattered a car window to rescue a baby.
An off-duty city traffic officer shattered a car window to rescue a four-month-old boy who had been left inside the parked vehicle in Maitland.
Charlene Saaiman, 37, was stopped at the intersection of Voortrekker Road and Prestige Drive last Monday by someone who told her a baby had been left alone in a locked car at the Shoprite shopping complex.
She found the baby in the Audi A4, “lying on his back on a blanket, wearing a long-sleeve vest and wildly kicking his feet and arms.”
The baby was soaked with sweat and visibly in distress.
A car guard told her the child’s father had asked her to keep an eye on the baby while he and his sister-in-law were buying baby milk.
Saaiman tried to alert the father over the shop’s PA system but had no response.
She ran back to the car, saw the front passenger window was slightly open and tried to force it down, shattering it.
After she pulled the baby out a man came running, shouting: “I am the father, what happened to my baby?”
“I asked him how can he do this to his baby. He replied the (baby) was sleeping and he didn’t want to wake him up.”
Paramedics treated the baby for dehydration and he was taken to hospital.
Saaiman has laid a charge of neglect against the father. – Cape Argus
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