A black mother has been arrested after her toddler was found abandoned in Glenanda, Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“The mother has been arrested. The child is still in a place of safety,” Warrant Officer Lorraine van Emmerik said.<\/p>\n
The case had been handed over to Child Protection Services, who had questioned the mother.<\/p>\n
Van Emmerik said members of the public found the 2-year-old boy walking alone near the Glen mall on Friday.<\/p>\n
They first took him to the mall to see if they could find any information from surveillance camera footage to help them find his parents.<\/p>\n
After this proved unsuccessful, he was taken to the Mondeor police station.<\/p>\n
The mother was found on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t know the circumstances around the father,” Van Emmerik added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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