This is definitely sad.

OH my Goodness....I saw a newborn Kid sometime back,I think he was younger than the above thrown in garbage pit in Umoja-innercore.I was shocked how can a mother be that cruel.

This is really sad. Im just wondering why would she carry the baby to term and then do this? Doesnt make sense, its time we had safe surrender places where women can give away their children to be brought up by others instead of this happening to innocent babies!!

But humans have always done things like this since times gone. In fact, the photo exhibits a perfectly human judgement.

And humans are not alone; cats eat their kitten, ditto dogs . . .

Essyk that was sad, I cant even imagine. But reading through your story I was just hoping they did not give the baby back to her mother, but unfortunately they did! Someone who throws her child away in a pit latrine of all places while the child is still alive is definetely not fit to raise that child. The fact that she chose to kill that child and let the other one live, to me shows that she had issues with the father of the child and not necessarily the child. Society has a tendency to put all the blame on the woman, but guess what somewhere there is a man who fathered that child, he goes off scot free, no blame, no guilt!! I bet the women who leave their children for dead are usually under alot of financial strain. I am not trying to absolve them of their horrendous acts but sometimes its better to look at issues from their point of view. I picture her as an 18 year old, fully dependent on her parents and when she gets pregnant, the father of her child abandons her. She cant tell her parents because they are already under too much stress trying to make ends meet, so she hides her pregnancy, which must be the most harrowing experience. Imagine having to live a lie everyday in a one room shack, Im guessing she must be going through hell When she delivers she has no support, no one to talk to, throw in post partum depression and I can definetely understand how she would come to this conclusion.Women are attacked verbally everyday in society, just read through some of the posts here and you realize that women are indeed very strong! Had that woman had the financial means to care for her child, I doubt if she would have made this type of decision. As a woman I strongly believe that women should be financially empowered, my mum advised me to never be dependent on a man 100% and I find it to be true. I see so many women trapped in unhappy marriages and they cant get out because the husband is the bread winner. I honestly do not understand this way of thinking, because I would rather go and sell veggies at marikiti than live in misery. Anyways my point is let us not be quick to place all the blame on the woman, only she knows the kind of hell she was going through that made her do this. Instead lets encourage safe surrender, no questions asked!