{"id":49024,"date":"2023-07-21T06:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/longinfeksie-eis-baba-20230719-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:01:28","slug":"longinfeksie-eis-baba-20230719-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/longinfeksie-eis-baba-20230719-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Longinfeksie\u2019 eis baba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leighton en Heidi Goliath van Riverview se agt maande oue baba, Hay-Leigh, is op 14 Junie by die Miracle Day Care dagsorg in Worcester oorlede nadat sy in haar slaap ophou asem haal het. <\/p>\n<p>Hay-Leigh se dood het heelwat opslae gemaak in die dorp, veral nadat daar ook \u2019n protes voor die dagsorg op 6 Julie gehou is met die doel om \u2019n memorandum aan die eienaar te oorhandig.<\/p>\n<p>Wilna Brand is die eienaar van die dagsorg, wat reeds agt jaar oop is en omsien na sowat 95 kinders tussen die ouderdomme van agt maande en drie jaar.<\/p>\n<p>Sy het verduidelik die familie haar in \u2019n poniekoerant van nalatigheid beskuldig het, en beweer het dat sy nie na Hay-Leigh omgesien het nie.<\/p>\n<p>Nietemin, volgens Brand is di\u00e9 bewerings in die koerant onwaar, wat bewys kan word deur die nadoodse ondersoek waarvoor sy gewag het voordat sy kommentaar sou lewer.<\/p>\n<p>Die ondersoekverslag is op 7 Julie deur die Worcester-polisie uitgereik.<\/p>\n<p>Volgens die verslag is Hay-Leigh oorlede aan \u2019n virale longinfeksie met geen vaste- of vloeistowwe sigbaar in haar longe nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHay-Leigh het vroeg die oggend ingekom, sy was huilerig, en het net n\u00e1 08:00 aan die slaap geraak en toe later weer wakker geword en gespeel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToe rondom 09:55 het sy buierig geraak en wou weer slaap,\u201d het Brand verduidelik.<\/p>\n<p>Om 11:15 het die onderwyser vir Hay-Leigh wakker gemaak, waarna sy haar opgetel het, en agtergekom sy \u201cvoel pap\u201d en 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