A mother bludgeoned a three-year-old girl
to death after finding out the toddler had
been raped by her nine-year-old son.
The South African woman, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, murdered her
friend’s young daughter Asanda Mbuku in
order to ‘silence her’ and protect her own
child.
She killed the toddler
with a blunt rock and
dumped the body in
her back garden,
covering the body up
with corrugated iron
sheets – while
Asanda’s family
formed a desperate
search party.
The 32-year-old mother told Gauteng High
Court in Pretoria that she was looking after
Asanda as a favour to her parents when
she found her half naked near the door.
She then realised that her son had raped
the toddler.
‘I realised she was not moving and
sprinkled her with water to wake her, but
she did not,’ she told the court, adding
that she killed her out of fear that she
would wake up and tell people what had
happened.
‘I took a rock and I hit her on the head to
kill her. I hid her at the back of my garden.
I did all this because my son had raped her
and I did not want anyone to find out. I
burnt her jacket and shoes.
‘When her parents came to the house to
fetch her, I said I did not know where she
was.’
The rapist nine-year-
old was sent to
school the next day
as usual, but he
couldn’t keep what he
had done a secret
and confessed all to
his aunt when he got
home.
Appearing at court on Wednesday, the
woman pleaded guilty to one count of
murder and another of attempting to
obstruct justice, and was sentenced to 11
years in prison.
Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela said it was a
shame she didn’t realise that her son
would not have been arrested, as in South
Africa a child under the age of 10 cannot
be held criminally responsible for their
actions.
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