An angry Flats community bayed for a woman’s blood after they found a foetus stuffed in a freezer.
But the tragic truth was soon revealed when police arrived at the Pearl Crescent Street home in Vygieskraal, Athlone, on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman at the centre of the storm, Shireen Roykers, showed police a medical report and release papers from Groote Schuur Hospital stating she had miscarried twins last week.
And the hospital had released one of her babies and kept the other for educational purposes.
Police say Shireen told them she was Muslim and was not able to bury the foetus according to Muslim rites because she didn’t have the money.
She decided to place the foetus in her family’s freezer until she could afford a burial.
When the Daily Voice arrived at the scene, a mob of angry community residents chased after Shireen as she walked frantically between shacks clutching a plastic packet containing the foetus.
She refused to speak to the Daily Voice.
Residents shouted “murderer” and asked why she had placed a baby in a freezer.
Shireen’s niece Charmaine Abrahams, 18, reveals she was the one who contacted police after she discovered the parcel she was given was not meat but a foetus.
“My aunt was hungry and she was looking for food,” she says.
“She came to my home with my older sister. She asked me to keep the parcel in the fridge.
“But when I later opened it up, I saw it was a baby and I got such a shock because I thought it was meat.”
She then alerted police.
Charmaine explains that her aunt was desperate for taxi fare and money for a burial and stopped by their home for help.
“We didn’t know she was at Groote Schuur Hospital last week Wednesday,” she adds.
“She said afterward she is being treated for stomach cancer and during the treatment she miscarried the twins without even knowing she was pregnant.
“She needed a R10 for taxi fare to get to her other family for a R150 to bury the child.”
Meanwhile, police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Filander says police suspected no foul play after the woman produced a letter from the hospital.
“She showed police a letter that the hospital released the baby and said she didn’t have the money to bury the baby and we therefore didn’t make an arrest or suspect foul play.”
Source: IOL ONLINE
But the tragic truth was soon revealed when police arrived at the Pearl Crescent Street home in Vygieskraal, Athlone, on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman at the centre of the storm, Shireen Roykers, showed police a medical report and release papers from Groote Schuur Hospital stating she had miscarried twins last week.
And the hospital had released one of her babies and kept the other for educational purposes.
Police say Shireen told them she was Muslim and was not able to bury the foetus according to Muslim rites because she didn’t have the money.
She decided to place the foetus in her family’s freezer until she could afford a burial.
When the Daily Voice arrived at the scene, a mob of angry community residents chased after Shireen as she walked frantically between shacks clutching a plastic packet containing the foetus.
She refused to speak to the Daily Voice.
Residents shouted “murderer” and asked why she had placed a baby in a freezer.
Shireen’s niece Charmaine Abrahams, 18, reveals she was the one who contacted police after she discovered the parcel she was given was not meat but a foetus.
“My aunt was hungry and she was looking for food,” she says.
“She came to my home with my older sister. She asked me to keep the parcel in the fridge.
“But when I later opened it up, I saw it was a baby and I got such a shock because I thought it was meat.”
She then alerted police.
Charmaine explains that her aunt was desperate for taxi fare and money for a burial and stopped by their home for help.
“We didn’t know she was at Groote Schuur Hospital last week Wednesday,” she adds.
“She said afterward she is being treated for stomach cancer and during the treatment she miscarried the twins without even knowing she was pregnant.
“She needed a R10 for taxi fare to get to her other family for a R150 to bury the child.”
Meanwhile, police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Filander says police suspected no foul play after the woman produced a letter from the hospital.
“She showed police a letter that the hospital released the baby and said she didn’t have the money to bury the baby and we therefore didn’t make an arrest or suspect foul play.”
Source: IOL ONLINE
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