Detectives from the KwaDukuza Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit are requesting the community to assist in locating the next of kin of a one-week-old baby boy who was found on 16 September 2018. The baby was found abandoned near an unoccupied house on the R74 highway in Maphumulo by a passerby.

The baby was well-clothed and wrapped with a blanket. He was taken to hospital for medical attention. A case of child abandonment was opened in the Maphumulo police station.

Source: South African Police Service