Single mother hands herself over to cops
After police in Kathorus found the body of a dead infant next to a house in Siluma View on Tuesday, December 20, its death puzzled them for for two weeks.
Then, on January 3, an unknown young woman calmly strolled into the police station at the Ramokonopi Precinct and gave the police gruesome details about the death of the unidentified infant.
The young woman allegedly went on relate to the police about how, just five days before Christmas, she had given birth all by herself at a secluded spot. Thereafter, she allegedly confessed, she had dumped her newborn baby in the spot where it was later found by the police. The woman allegedly further told the police that she had concealed her pregnancy from her lover and her parents.
The woman, who is also the mother to two other young children, lives with them at her parents’ home
“She told us that she knew what she had done was wrong and that her conscience had forced her to open her heart and come to the police station to tell the truth about the baby found in Siluma View just five days before Christmas last year,” the police explained.
After she finished relating her tragic story to the senior police officer, the woman asked that she be arrested because what she had done had affected her mind tremendously. “If you do not arrest me, now, I might kill myself and my children,” she threatened.
The woman was then read her rights and formally informed that she was being placed under police arrest on a charge of concealment of birth. She was immediately arrested and booked into the holding cells.
But the charge was later changed to murder based on post-mortem results conducted on the baby.
The troubled single mother of two made her first appearance at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Courts last Thursday, January 5, and the case against her was postponed while police continue their investigations into the baby’s death.
