A West Auckland mum has made a public plea after her son’s placenta was stolen from a freezer.
Loralie Burns posted the message on Facebook following news someone had gone through a freezer she hadn’t had time to move from her former home, and taken frozen meat, according to Fairfax.
One of the containers contained her young sons placenta.
“Please return the item in the blue tupperware container as it is my sons placenta,” she wrote on Facebook.
“I don’t care how it comes back, i don’t need to know who… just please get it back to me asap!!
“If you know someone who brought home a few roasts last night please check ur freezers.”
She had planned to bury the placenta in a significant spot, and couldn’t remember if the container had been labelled by the midwife before being put in the freezer.
“We were going to bury it with my partner’s mum’s ashes,” Burs told Fairfax.
“I hope to God I get it back, and I hope no one eats it — that would torment me for a long time.”
