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Durban hospital cleaner arrested in police sting

MEMBERS of Durban’s Organised Crime Unit arrested a cleaner/general assistant employed at a top Durban private hospital who allegedly sold a fresh placenta or afterbirth to a police trap for R500 on Saturday afternoon.

Police are still investigating from which patient at the hospital the afterbirth was taken.

The 33-year-old woman is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court today in connection with charges of illegally trafficking in human body parts.

A woman’s afterbirth is allegedly widely sought after by witchdoctors for muthi purposes.

The Witness learnt that after the suspect was arrested, police searched her home in Hope Road, Morningside, Durban, where a further four bottles containing what appeared to be human tissue were discovered in the refrigerator.

The Witness was informed that the tissue in the bottles will be sent to a laboratory for testing to establish whether or not the tissue is from human beings or animals.

Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu confirmed the arrest of the woman and requested The Witness not to publish the name of the private hospital where the suspect worked and where she was arrested, as the hospital authorities have not been fully briefed on the incident.

He said police are in the process of investigating if the woman was part of a syndicate dealing in human body parts, or was working alone.

A source told The Witness that police were required to act swiftly on Saturday after receiving information from an informer that a woman sold body parts to a witchdoctor in the market at Warwick Avenue, and allegedly indicated that she had access to a supply of human parts.

She was allegedly asked if she could supply the afterbirth from a white woman, and confirmed that she could do so.

An undercover operation was then put in motion with the help of the agent, who made arrangements to purchase a fresh afterbirth from the woman the same afternoon.

At lunch-time on Saturday, the woman met police operatives as planned outside the gates of the hospital where she worked and the deal was made. She was arrested at the scene.

The woman had allegedly initially demanded to be paid R1 000, but settled for R500. The Witness was told that the afterbirth was contained in a labelled plastic bag.

The crime of trafficking in human parts is not new to Durban, where in February 2002 two men — one of whom was an employee at the Gale Street mortuary — were arrested for the “corruption and violation of dead bodies”. They were alleged to be members of a syndicate.

At the time of their arrests in an undercover operation by the Anti-Corruption Unit and Scorpions, police found the testicles and tongue of a man in their possession.

Then Health MEC Dr Zweli Mkhize at the time denounced the sale of body parts and said their use for muthi is illegal. People are misled if they believe body parts can cure them of ailments, he said.

In December 2003, three people were arrested in Durban in connection with international trade in human organs, mainly kidneys, whereby volunteer “donors” were located in Brazil and paid a fee to undergo surgery to remove one of their kidneys in Durban
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One those "another day in S.A" stories we all love to wake up to :sick:
 
Terrible,

Did anyone watch that show on ETV about those people who steal newborns from their murdered mothers? None of them were South African, wasn't that surprising?
 
What a sick place we live in, that people can be so heartless. The one thing that amazes me is how desensitised we all become to this. This would probably make major news overseas, but here its probably Page 10 news.
 
Ady said:
What a sick place we live in, that people can be so heartless. The one thing that amazes me is how desensitised we all become to this. This would probably make major news overseas, but here its probably Page 10 news.
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Are you actually surprised? Its page 10 news because its so common.
 
Thats what i'm saying, it seems our society has no moral fibre left. We tolerate this kind of behaviour and after a while we get lead into thinking its normal. The expose on Carte Blanche was an eye opener "Murder Most Foul", it is horrible what goes on, but i think we almost see it as normal. Just another murder. Look at the outcry over Madeline. Here in S.A. nothing would happen.
 
Ady said:
Thats what i'm saying, it seems our society has no moral fibre left. We tolerate this kind of behaviour and after a while we get lead into thinking its normal. The expose on Carte Blanche was an eye opener "Murder Most Foul", it is horrible what goes on, but i think we almost see it as normal. Just another murder. Look at the outcry over Madeline. Here in S.A. nothing would happen.
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You've hit the nail on the head. Thats why many of us are leaving.
 
Ady said:
Thats what i'm saying, it seems our society has no moral fibre left. We tolerate this kind of behaviour and after a while we get lead into thinking its normal. The expose on Carte Blanche was an eye opener "Murder Most Foul", it is horrible what goes on, but i think we almost see it as normal. Just another murder. Look at the outcry over Madeline. Here in S.A. nothing would happen.
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That's the problem really, we're blinkered as to the real problem with violent crime when a show like Murder Most Foul is considered a real eye opener. It represents a tiny percentage of the crime problem, especially from a demographic point of view.

As for the Madeline Outcry, cast your mind back the media exposure that kidnapped then murdered university student got a few years ago. And don't forget about the Dina Roderiquez case where the poor little baby was brutally murdered. Certain stories get media attention but they have certain attributes and don't represent the problem on a whole.
 
Why not release the hospital's name? Very dodgy. What's even more scary is someone actually wanted to buy it. :sick:
 
:D

I cant help but find the outcry extremely funny. Look here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood and you will see that the sale of afterbirth happens at a higher rate than a lot of people know about. Follow the money and you'd probably find that the afterbirth was earmarked for sale anyway hence its proper isolation. Infringing on the docter's profit more likely, see "receiving information from an informer".

Perception is a funny thing.
 
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whats so wrong with stealing afterbirth

is anyone going to use it?

makes a good soup in china i've heard
 
alanf85 said:
Durban hospital cleaner arrested in police sting



One those "another day in S.A" stories we all love to wake up to :sick:
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I thought white ingredients were pretty impotent for muthi purposes.

Ok, its shocking ... but while these cops were running a sting operation a few dozen people were murdered in SA, a few hundred burglaries and robberies occurred and so on.... waste of resources, I say.
 
Myrrdin said:
:D

I cant help but find the outcry extremely funny. Look here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood and you will see that the sale of afterbirth happens at a higher rate than a lot of people know about. Follow the money and you'd probably find that the afterbirth was earmarked for sale anyway hence its proper isolation. Infringing on the docter's profit more likely, see "receiving information from an informer".

Perception is a funny thing.
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Don't trust Wikipedia. It's not an authorative source. :)
 
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