AN abandoned baby boy was found on a pavement in Brixton on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg police said. Captain Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the man who found the baby told police that he heard the little boy cry when he was walking down Abercorn Road in Hursthill, Brixton around 4pm. The baby is between two and three months old and was lying on a receiving blanket on the pavement close to an adjacent veld. She said the baby was wearing a peach-coloured babygrow and there was a bottle next to him. The baby looked clean and well cared for. He was taken to a place of safety in Berea. Martins-Engelbrecht appealed to anyone with information about the child’s parents of relatives to contact Captain Elsen Nghondheni or Senior Superintendent David Oliphant at the Brixton police station on 248-5551 and 248-5520 during office hours. – Sapa
Monday October 22, 2001