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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| 'I dumped my baby in the toilet' |
| 2005-08-13 |
| Another feel-good story from South Africa, along with the "jack rollings" (now exported to UK), the "drug-fuelled rape orgies", and the carjackings... oh, and the future land redistribution, Mugabe style. A young Matatiele mother admitted in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday to killing her nine-month-old baby because she was HIV positive. Thobeka Mtoto, 22, killed baby Unathi on 14 March this year by stuffing her into a sack and drowning her in a school toilet. In a written statement to the court the mother said that after the birth of Unathi in June 2004, she had tested positive for HIV. At the time of the baby's birth she was a Grade 12 pupil. Mtoto, who is now five months pregnant with another man's child, said Unathi's father had promised to help her, but never did. A few days prior to the murder she said she had been "irritable and depressed about her HIV status". She had been involved in an argument with her sister. "On that day I had an argument with my sister, which turned into a physical confrontation. I was feeling depressed so I took the baby and went to sit on the roadside. " Mtoto said she then went home, fed the baby and put her to bed. A little while later she said she felt "very aggressive". "I felt like grabbing someone and killing them. I went to the next room and got a sack. I returned to the bedroom and placed the baby in the sack. I went to a nearby school where I dumped the deceased (baby Unathi) in the toilet." When Mtoto's mother enquired about the missing baby, she said the baby had been sent to its father. Mtoto's mother grew suspicious and called the police. When the police arrived, she admitted everything and showed them where the Unathi's body was. She said her HIV status made her afraid of the future of her baby. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #2 ...That song reminds me of something I heard in a history class, long ago: "Father's A Drunkard, And Mother Is Dead." Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-13 13:01 |
| #1 Dahn the Plug 'Ole A muvver was barfin 'er biby one night, The youngest of ten and a tiny young mite, The muvver was poor and the biby was thin, Only a skelington covered in skin; The muvver turned rahnd for the soap off the rack, She was but a moment, but when she turned back, The biby was gorn; and in anguish she cried, Oh, where is my biby?' - and the angels replied: Your biby 'as fell dahn the plug-'ole, Your biby 'as gorn dahn the plug; The poor little thing was so skinny and thin E oughtern been barfed in a jug; Your biby is perfeckly 'appy, E won't need a barf any more, Your biby 'as fell dahn the plug 'ole Not lorst....... but gorn before! |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-08-13 10:00 |