In one of two separate cases of child neglect, a child was found to have been bitten by rats in Tembisa.
Two women, aged 22 and 36, have appeared in Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Monday after they allegedly neglected three minor children in two separate incidents.
The two women are facing charges of child neglect, with an additional assault charge for the woman whose child was bitten by rats.
Ivory Park SAPS communications officer, Capt Bernard Matimulane, said in one of the cases one of the children, almost three years old, was found to have been bitten by rats after the mother left her and her four-year-old brother overnight while she was visiting the children’s father.
“The two women were arrested on Friday,” Matimulane added.
“The other woman was found by passers-by beating her child on the street. When the community came for her, she fled the scene.
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