A woman has been arrested for illegally aborting her pregnancy and burying the foetus in Meqheleng in Ficksburg, Free State police said on Thursday.
Police took the 18-year-old teenager into custody on Wednesday morning after digging up the remains of a foetus from her home yard, Captain Phumelele Dhlamini said.
He said officers acted on a tip-off from the residents and interrogated the woman, who led them to the shallow grave.
“She had apparently terminated her four-month-old pregnancy at the end of November by drinking a traditional medicine.”
The teenager was expected to face a charge of concealment of birth in the Ficksburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday. – Sapa
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Teen held for illegal abortion