PREGNANT WOMEN DRINKING BATTERY ACID TO GET MORE WELFARE MONEY

 This is heartbreaking and horrible at the same time! Pregnant South African women are deliberately drinking large quantities of alcohol to harm their unborn babies in a bid to get more welfare money! OMG!

Expectant mothers living in the Eastern Cape, one of the poorest areas in South Africa, are bingeing on a ‘moonshine’ type drink which contains battery acid – with some drinking up to five and six bottles a day. It has been reported they do it to claim a disability benefit from the government – using their disabled children as a source of income.

Families receive 250 South African rand ($28) per child, per month but a disabled child brings in 1200 rand a month ($134) – a “lucrative” income. SMDH!

‘If I don’t drink this, I’m like someone who is sick,’ one woman told Sky News. The addictive milky brown brew is made from yeast, water and battery acid. It is sold in illegal drinking spots called ‘shebeens’.

Drinking while pregnant can cause Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) which results in speech problems, physical deformities, learning difficulties and behavioral issues The houses are often raided by police who close them down. But as soon as one is shut, another opens.

The World Health Organization said there has been an increase in the number of babies born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the area since 2002.

The syndrome is also the most common birth defect in South Africa.

SOURCE: SKYNEWS