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– –<\/span> The baby was discovered by a man who was picking mangoes near a stream in Dawncrest, KwaZulu Natal Province on Monday, October 3, 2022.<\/p>\n An apology note found in the bag beside the child requested that authorities be called in and that the system had failed her when she attempted an ab#rtion.<\/p>\n Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) spokesperson, Prem Balram said the 23-year-old mother was arrested for child abandonment and appeared in court on Thursday, October 6.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cThe woman was arrested after she willingly handed herself over to the the South Africa Police Services (SAPS) after a public outcry on social media platforms in South Africa,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mother was charged & appeared in the Verulam Magistrates Court today (Thursday) & was granted bail of R500. The matter has been remanded to B Court on November 10, 2022\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala said: \u201cWe can confirm that police arrested a 23-year-old woman for child abandonment and she appeared before the Verulam Magistrate\u2019s Court today (Thursday).\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – A 23-year-old woman who abandoned her 3-month-old daughter alongside an apology note earlier this week has been arrested in South Africa. The baby was discovered by a man who was picking mangoes near a stream in Dawncrest, KwaZulu Natal Province on Monday, October 3, 2022. An apology note found in the bag beside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21128,3444,1254,486,3505,2755,1729,1650],"class_list":["post-1218643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-23yearold","tag-abandoned","tag-arrest","tag-baby","tag-leaving","tag-mother","tag-note","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nA 23-year-old woman who abandoned her 3-month-old daughter alongside an apology note earlier this week has been arrested in South Africa.<\/h2>\n
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