NOTE: Article first appeared on The Citizen website on November 6, 2014.
A homeless boy in Braamfontein, who thought he had picked up a Checkers plastic bag filled with food and other “nice things” near Wits University, was shocked when he instead discovered the mangled body of a dead baby.
Wits University campus control director Robert Kemp said the body had been dumped from a white Volkswagen Polo driving down Jan Smuts Avenue in Johannesburg late on Tuesday night.
It was particularly cold and wet that night, and the desperate homeless youngster thought he might have found something to help him through it.
“A passing vagrant saw the packet thinking there might be something nice for him in there but then he discovered the deceased baby,” said Kemp.
The young boy immediately looked for help and quickly approached campus control officers at the Nowsell Hall residence.
Warrant Officer Richard Munyai confirmed the incident yesterday.
“A case of concealment of birth has been opened… that is basically [an] abortion,” he explained.
He added that preliminary findings revealed that “it was a stillborn baby in that plastic”.
A police investigation was underway.
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