A grade 10 learner left the community shocked after she gave birth by herself at school and dumped the baby in a pit toilet. The incident happened on Thursday morning at Isolesizwe High School in Mtubatuba in the far north of KwaZulu Natal.

SHE COMPLAINED OF A RUNNING STOMACH

The incident happened on Thursday morning at Isolesizwe High School in Mtubatuba in the far north of KwaZulu Natal. It is alleged that the learner (18) asked her teacher to excuse her as she had a runny stomach. "Everybody at school knew that she was heavily pregnant and we were expecting her to give birth at anytime. We were surprised when she took almost two hours in the toilet until our class teacher asked us to go and check on her. We found her mopping lot of blood and she claimed that she was on her period and she didn’t have her pads," said a learner who wished not to be named. The learner said that they told her they were going to ask for sanitary pads from the school clerk and they then informed the principal of what they had just witnessed.

CONFESSING TO DUMPING THE BABY IN THE TOILET

The principal called for an urgent meeting with the parents after the female teachers refused to attend to the matter. When the learner came out of the toilet, the principal asked her why she took long at the toilet and she stood by her story about sanitary pads. Parents were called to the school and upon interrogation, the learner confessed that she gave birth by herself and that she had dumped the baby in the toilet.

BABY FOUND ALIVE

The parents went to search for the baby in the toilet and they found her alive. The learner said that she was scared of telling her teacher that she was ready to give birth," the learner said. Mkhanyakude Police Spokesperson Captain Sibusiso Mkhize confirmed the incident. "The mother and the baby are both being taken care of at the nearby hospital," he said.