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Black mother arrested for abandoning her 2-year old child

A black mother has been arrested after her toddler was found abandoned in Glenanda, Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Sunday.

“The mother has been arrested. The child is still in a place of safety,” Warrant Officer Lorraine van Emmerik said.

The case had been handed over to Child Protection Services, who had questioned the mother.

Van Emmerik said members of the public found the 2-year-old boy walking alone near the Glen mall on Friday.

They first took him to the mall to see if they could find any information from surveillance camera footage to help them find his parents.

After this proved unsuccessful, he was taken to the Mondeor police station.

The mother was found on Saturday.

“We don’t know the circumstances around the father,” Van Emmerik added.

Black mother suffocates son, burns body

fire2She suffocated her 8-year-old son with a pillow at her Parkrand, Boksburg, home.

Then she took his lifeless body, put it into her car and drove to Dawn Park, a suburb a few kilometres away, where she placed it on the side of the road and burnt it.

As the corpse was engulfed by flames, Precious Maliepetsane Mokoena got into her car and went home.

She was arrested a few days later and charged with the murder of Lehlohonolo Magatikele.

In the Johannesburg High Court on Monday, Mokoena’s father’s eyes constantly brimmed with tears whenever he looked at his daughter.

Speaking to The Star, Abram Moepshe said he “can’t stop asking why”.

Mokoena pleaded guilty and, according to her lawyer, advocate Thabiso Mashitoa, the mother-of-two stated in her plea explanation that she had marital problems.

She had divorced her husband and was awarded custody of Lehlohonolo.

On January 13 last year, she smothered Lehlohonolo with a pillow, burnt his body and went home, she said in her plea explanation.

The matter has been adjourned to June.

Black mother takes out insurance hit on her sons

blackhouseA black mother from KwaZulu-Natal was arrested in Gamalakhe, Port Shepstone, for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill her two sons, police said on Wednesday.

The woman allegedly approached a relative, who had recently been released from prison, to kill them, offering R25,000 for each child, Colonel Jay Naicker said.

“The alleged motive for the killing was that she wanted insurance money because she had insured her sons,” Naicker said.

The relative reported the matter to the police. A police officer posing as the hitman arrested her in her home, after she went to fetch photographs of her sons for him. Her sons were home at the time.

The 50-year-old mother of three would appear in the Port Shepstone Magistrate’s court on Thursday on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. – Sapa