Mom who threw baby out of moving car charged

A Witbank mother who allegedly threw her two-month-old baby out of a moving car has been charged with attempted murder.

The incident on Tuesday morning brought traffic in Mandela Street to a standstill.

The mother, who was travelling in a BMW with a person who was giving her a lift, threw her baby out of the window of the car.

A bystander rushed to pick up the critically injured baby and took him to a doctor.

The vehicle that the mother was travelling in was then surrounded and forced to stop by angry eyewitnesses.

From the doctor’s rooms, the baby was transported by paramedics to Life Cosmos Hospital for further treatment.

The baby was treated by Dr Wayne Banks in the hospital’s causality unit.

Dr Banks has sent the baby for a CT (computed tomography) scan and the results of it were still pending.

According to the paramedic who transported the baby to the hospital, he is currently in good hands.

The mother was taken to Witbank police station where she was questioned, but refused to speak about the incident.

The woman was due to appear in the Witbank Magistrate’s Court yesterday in her first court appearance on the attempted murder charge.

The injured baby is still being treated in Life Cosmos Hospital. – Caxton News Service