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A Namibian woman is willing to part with her baby for ZAR500 claiming poverty. Yep, 50 US Dollars.
According to the Confidente Emma April from an informal settlement is willing to give her child up for that money. The four month-old baby is malnourished and too small for his age according to a neighbour who said that she would have purchased the child if she had the money.
The condition of the baby is considered dire as it has been neglected since it was born. Every so often neighbours have to break down the door in order to rescue the baby when it is continuously crying due to hunger as in most cases it would not have been fed the whole day. The mother apparently spends most of her money on alcohol and only feeds the baby water and sugar.
When people from the newspaper visited her, she demanded that she be bought five big bottles of beer and cigarettes before she could agree to an interview. She also said that she was on her way out and that the baby would be fine by himself. This was apparently late in the night.
Creeps you out doesn’t it when you realise that there are people like that out there.
Sadly cases 0f child abuse in informal settlements are all too common across Africa where social child welfare structures are not as responsive as they would like to be.
We sit and take a lot of things for granted. Probably a good idea to call whoever brought you up and tell them that you love them. That is assuming that that relationship went alright…
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