A Cape Town mom got so drunk she forgot her baby at the home of a man she had a one-night stand with.
The 22-year-old mom says she forgot she had taken her child with her to a shebeen where she met a man she spent the night with.
Noxolo Lugwali, 22, had her whole Garden City, Mfuleni, community and cops mobilised looking for her two-year-old baby Linathi.
Meanwhile, the child was safely at the home of the unsuspecting lover who woke on Tuesday morning to find the mother had left without her baby.
Noxolo told the Daily Voice she had gone out on Monday evening to have a few drinks.
“I usually go with my child to the shebeen and drink while she is there,” she explained.
“I don’t know what came over me this time.”
She said she went home with a man she met at the Bardale shebeen and the next morning she went home without Linathi – and only realised hours later that the toddler was not with her.
It was after neighbours asked here where her child was on Tuesday afternoon that she started looking for her.
“I searched the whole area and didn’t find my daughter and then, after a while, I remembered that I went to that man’s house,” said Noxolo.
“When I arrived there, he told me he had been looking after her while I left her there.”
When the Daily Voice arrived at Noxolo’s home, the toddler was playing outside and her mother was sleeping inside the shack and had no idea that her baby was outside playing unattended.
Noxolo’s mother Nomaza Lugwali said: “My daughter only cares about alcohol and men and she doesn’t care about her own little girl.
“She has been in Cape Town for six weeks but she acts like she has been here for a long time.
“If I go to work, she takes her child to the shebeen and even though she has a boyfriend here, she will go to sleep somewhere else.”
Nomaza said she is grateful her grandchild is back home.
But she added that she would be sending her daughter to a special youth development centre so she can learn to be more responsible. - Daily Voice