17 February, 2.20pm:
In their statement following the news of another toddler found dead at the weekend, the DA is spearheading urgent intervention by the Gauteng Social Development Department to address the possible increase of child murders in Diepsloot.
After a grizzly find on 15 February, a young girl was found dumped under a bridge. Her body is the fifth found since September in the township.
“The DA calls on Social Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza to intervene. The department must investigate this increase in the number of abandoned babies. It must also determine why no police reports were filed on the missing child and why have no relatives come forward to claim the [body of] the toddler,” said the DA’s Hendrika Kruger, Gauteng’s social development spokesperson.
Kruger maintained that the time has come for the social development department to implement its own vision of an integrated social development system that facilitates human development and improves the quality of life for the people of Gauteng.
The young victim has still not been identified.
The police are investigating.
17 February, 7.30am:
Another toddler corpse found under a bridge.
According to EWN, passersby found the body of a three-year-old girl on Saturday night.
The body has not been identified or claimed, read the latest update by Times Live.
The body count of children found dead in Diepsloot reached five with the latest gruesome find.
Three toddlers (all girls) were found raped and mangled between September and October.
Diepsloot police under pressure from a outraged community managed to arrest suspects, but there was no news if the circumstances of the latest find relates to the first three killings.
