The 4-year-old boy who was found wandering in the Plumstead cemetery on Saturday is back with his family.
The Department of Social Development
intervened after the family only reported the child missing late Sunday.
The boy was found by a passer-by who
immediately took the child to Diep River
Ministerial Spokesperson Sihle Ngobese said
social workers were called to the police station where they stayed with the
toddler in the hopes that his family would show up. However a decision was
eventually taken to temporarily place the child in a safe home in the evening
whilst efforts to trace his family were on-going.
Ngobese said the following day police
alerted social workers of a call made by the family regarding their missing
grandchild and social workers immediately went to the family to interview the
grandparents and assess the situation.
“The one grandmother admitted she lost
sight of the child during a burial service held at the cemetery but assumed the
child was in the care of other relatives” Ngobese added.
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