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Woman Chooses Booze over Baby 22/11/2010

A Khayelitsha, Cape Town, woman was arrested for child neglect after she allegedly left her baby with her elderly father while she went out drinking, Western Cape police said on Wednesday.

"Police found the one-year-old child playing outside in the cold weather. She was in a bad state of neglect and when brought to the station. Victim support volunteers found that she was extremely hungry," Constable Mthokozisi Gama said.



"After bathing her and seeing to her needs, police commenced with the search for her mother." They found the 20-year-old woman in a local shebeen. She was arrested on charges of child neglect and child abuse. - Sapa

Francois Heyns - I wish this was an isolated incident but sadly its not. What is local government doing about this problem which is reaching epidemic proportations in the Peninsula?

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