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Diepsloot couple appears in court on suspected medicine murder of baby

rape_girls_feetSapa repports that a Diepsloot couple accused of murdering the woman’s seven-month-old baby appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

The case against Nokuthula Gumede, 23, and her Mozambican boyfriend Fernanado Sidanvo, 35, was postponed to January 21 for further investigation.

Gumede and Sidanvo remained in custody. Sidanvo told the court he lost his residence permit when Diepsloot residents ransacked his shack.

The baby was found dead and mutilated earlier this month.

Police spokesman Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said rats gnawed off the baby’s foot while the child was left alone in a shack. However, sources within Diepsloot describe the murder as a muti or medicine murder and that the body parts of the child were being sold to witchdoctors.

Gumede was arrested in a Randburg, Johannesburg, tavern two weeks ago, and Sidanvo the following day in Diepsloot.

Diepsloot couple back in court over mutilated baby

childrape3A Diepsloot couple accused of murdering and neglecting the woman’s seven-month-old baby is scheduled to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

Nokuthula Gumede, 23, and her boyfriend Fernando Sidanvo, 35, have been held in police custody since their arrests last week.

The baby was found dead and mutilated in a shack in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, on November 10.

Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said at the time that rats bit off the baby’s foot while it was alone in a shack.

Gumede was arrested in a Randburg tavern last Tuesday. Sidanvo was arrested in Diepsloot the next day.

The baby’s two-year-old sister was placed under the care of social workers last Thursday because her grandmother was being investigated, said Mofokeng.

“There is a possibility of the grandmother being charged with child negligence, but we are still investigating.”

Mofokeng said the toddlers were initially in her care, and she was not supposed to give them to their mother, who allegedly often neglected them. – Sapa

US teacher accused of having student’s baby

cute_babyPolice have arrested a Southern California high school teacher two weeks after she allegedly gave birth to a student’s baby.

Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker says 28-year-old Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst was arrested Monday night for allegedly having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old.

Officials at Citrus Valley High School in Redlands contacted police on Monday, acting on a tip from the boy’s mother.

Police say the sexual relationship began last summer and continued for nearly a year. The boy is now 17.

Whitehurst gave birth to a child June 18.

A telephone message left at the Whitehurst home was not immediately returned. – AP