Boy (1) dies in nanny’s care
The cause of a one-year-old boy’s death in Ivory Park, in the east of Johannesburg, remains unknown, police said.
This after the boy’s nanny left him sleeping on a couch in the living room, Midrand Reporterreported.
Ivory Park police spokesperson Neldah Sekgobela said: “A one-year-old boy was left in the care of a nanny when she [the nanny] decided to go to the shops [which were] a short distance away to buy food as she said she was starving.”
It was alleged the baby’s 19-year-old sister, who was in one of the other rooms in the house, was the only other person present in the house at the time of the child’s death.
Police said the teenager was not aware the nanny had gone out.
When the sister decided to check on the baby, she noticed he was vomiting and had a swollen stomach.
Paramedics were called, who later declared the child dead.
Sekgobela said an inquest docket was opened.
In a separate incident, two-year-old Jamie Faith Naidoo was allegedly murdered by a family member in Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal, last year.
According to the neighbour, the girl had cigarette burns all over her face and body, and her fingernails and toenails seemed to have been yanked out.
The girl’s ears were also allegedly torn and bleeding, while one of her knees had been dislocated.
The murder-accused mother and grandmother of the child are due in court again on February 6 to after mental assessments at the Fort Napier Hospital mental facility.
– Caxton News Service
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