Woman suspected of trying to drown toddler
A local surfer who rescued a drowing child from the sea at North Beach recently thought she had fallen in by accident.
A YOUNG surfer has said he was shocked when he heard a woman saying she had intended to kill the child he had just rescued from the sea at Durban’s North Beach on 28 December.
Niels Decaluwe, (16), was surfing when a fisherman on the pier called to him and showed him something in the water. He saw it was a young child, about three or four-years-old, who was battling to keep afloat in the water.
Decaluwe was able to reach her and pulled her to safety on his surf board. He said he thought she had fallen into the sea by accident and took her to shore. There he found a woman ranting about wanting to hang her.
Police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane, said it still had to be established whether she was the child’s biological mother, but the 28-year-old woman allegedly threw the toddler into the water from the pier in an attempt to kill her. She appeared in court on Wednesday, 31 December on charges of attempted murder. A bail hearing has been set for later this month.
