{"id":13622,"date":"2014-04-01T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:32:35","slug":"black-mother-suffocates-son-burns-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13622","title":{"rendered":"Black mother suffocates son, burns body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12152\" alt=\"fire2\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire2.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>She suffocated her 8-year-old son with a pillow at her Parkrand, Boksburg, home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the corpse was engulfed by flames, Precious Maliepetsane Mokoena got into her car and went home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was arrested a few days later and charged with the murder of Lehlohonolo Magatikele.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Johannesburg High Court on Monday, Mokoena\u2019s father\u2019s eyes constantly brimmed with tears whenever he looked at his daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to The Star, Abram Moepshe said he \u201ccan\u2019t stop asking why\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She had divorced her husband and was awarded custody of Lehlohonolo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 13 last year, she smothered Lehlohonolo with a pillow, burnt his body and went home, she said in her plea explanation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter has been adjourned to June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black mother suffocates son, burns body&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5411,152,8761,6978],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-mother","tag-boksburg","tag-burnt-corpse","tag-child-murder"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13623,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions\/13623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}