According to police spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko‚ the teen approached the mother and her child outside the Job Shimankane Tabane provincial hospital in Rustenburg where she was waiting to be picked up after they were discharged a day after she gave birth.
“The suspect congratulated the mother for having a new-born and offered her R23 to buy food. The mother‚ 31‚ then handed over her newborn to the suspect in order to go to the hospital shop to buy food‚” Ramaloko said.
“When she returned the baby and the suspect had disappeared. The victim alerted the hospital staff who then called Rustenburg police.”
