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Kid (2) given liquor
People’s Post Woodstock, Maitland & City
|November 04, 2025
The child is removed if the ideal of family unification is not in his or her interests.
The Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that a two-year-old Woodstock toddler has been removed from his mother's care after CCTV footage of the mother feeding him alcohol emerged on Sunday 19 October.
The boy has since been placed in temporary safe care in accordance with a Children's Court order.
According to Yusuf Mohamed, Ward 57 councillor, the incident occurred just days after the toddler was returned to the mother, following a previous case in January this year when the woman allegedly dropped the child to the floor while intoxicated.
Mohamed said he was made aware of the footage captured on the U-Watch neighbourhood-watch system on Monday 20 October.
"We got some footage of a mother feeding her child alcohol on the Main Road in Woodstock. Once we received that footage we shared it with all our safety stakeholders to try and figure out if we could find the mother or the child."
This story is from the November 04, 2025 edition of People’s Post Woodstock, Maitland & City.
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