A 32-year-old foreign national was tracked and arrested by the South African Response Department (RUSA) 17 hours after abandoning his newborn baby Near a manhole Rainwater drainage.
A CBD response officer was on a bicycle patrol on Wick Street in Verulam and found the girl hanging from the edge of a manhole, causing a two-meter drop into a rainwater drainage ditch. The child was rescued and accelerated to a government hospital.
On Sunday evening, February 9, the RUSA Operations Center received anonymous tips from a medical facility, which reported that photos of the circulating children were similar to those of babies who gave birth through a caesarean section.
Following up on this information, several other leaders’ reaction officers began stalking their mothers.
On Monday morning, the response officer established the woman’s identity. She was reportedly a foreign national who moved to South Africa from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, two (2) years ago.
Further information was received that the woman intends to flee the country.
The reaction officer opened a zone to a district in Hazelmere-KZN and found the woman with the assistance of the whistleblower. She was found to have a passport belonging to her friend (pictured). A plastic hospital tag was found in her room (Figure 6).
When interviewed by a female reactionary official, the woman explained that she entered the country illegally in 2022.
She left a child, 11 and 5, in Maceru, seeking employment in South Africa.
She was hired as a mechanic in the textile business and was pregnant with a third child.
During pregnancy, her boyfriend objected to the child’s parent-child relationship, believing that she had sexual relations with other partners.
According to the woman, the man refused to communicate with her when the child was given birth.
She added that she placed the baby in a black trash can and intended to push the baby into the storm drain.
As she approached the drain, she threw the baby in the direction of the manhole, as the vehicle approached. She then fled the area.
The woman is currently in custody on Verulam CAS 183/02/2025 – Abandoned child.
