The body of a newborn was discovered at a dumpsite around the Mendong Market in Yaounde last Saturday August 3.
The Guardian Post which first reported the incident said discovery of the corpse of the newborn provoked commotion around the market. Hundreds of people among the traders streamed to the dumpsite to have a look of the dead child.
Many expressed shock at the development, suspecting that the child may have been abandoned there to die by its mother.
But a woman who was also at the scene of the discovery discounted the narrative that the mother of the child may have allowed him to die due to hardship.
The woman advised girls to desist from the habit of giving birth to children and abandoning them to die. Besides the blame on girls, others attributed the abandonment of the baby to the irresponsibility of the man who failed to shoulder his responsibility.
Those who supported the version of what might have possibly happened said some men are good at only impregnating women but cannot take care of kids once they are born.
The incident adds to several others that have been recorded especially in major towns around the country in recent times.
In the economic capital, Douala, it was the corpse of a child estimated to be one-year-old that was discovered at the Entre Mantango vicinity.
Last year, it was the case of a woman who abandoned a newborn at the Non-Glacier neigbourhood in Douala III Subdivision.
These developments have continued despite repeated appeals from authorities especially in the Ministry of Women Empowerment and the Family for such to cease.
