Abandoned bay’s mom returns
The 27-year-old woman, who on Thursday abandoned her newborn baby boy at the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital, has been reunited with her child.
On Friday, the Oshana police used various media platforms to trace Selma Haufiku from Ohangwena, who gave birth last Wednesday to the baby boy, but abandoned him shortly after she was discharged on Thursday from ward 14, where she gave birth.
Haufiku only took her belongings and erased her details from the baby’s birth passport, before fleeing.
However, according to Oshana police spokesperson, Inspector Petrus Iimbili, the mother returned to the hospital on Friday in the company of her family and her employer, as she is a domestic worker at Iiviyongo village in the Ohangwena Region.
As for the motive for her abandoning her child, Iimbili said Haufiku had told the police and social workers she had done this due to the father being unwilling to support the baby.
Iimbili said Haufiku had now returned home with her child.
KENYA KAMBOWE
On Friday, the Oshana police used various media platforms to trace Selma Haufiku from Ohangwena, who gave birth last Wednesday to the baby boy, but abandoned him shortly after she was discharged on Thursday from ward 14, where she gave birth.
Haufiku only took her belongings and erased her details from the baby’s birth passport, before fleeing.
However, according to Oshana police spokesperson, Inspector Petrus Iimbili, the mother returned to the hospital on Friday in the company of her family and her employer, as she is a domestic worker at Iiviyongo village in the Ohangwena Region.
As for the motive for her abandoning her child, Iimbili said Haufiku had told the police and social workers she had done this due to the father being unwilling to support the baby.
Iimbili said Haufiku had now returned home with her child.
KENYA KAMBOWE
Comments
Namibian Sun
No comments have been left on this article