Springs girls locked inside home for two months

According to police spokesperson Captain Mandla Phori, the suspect claimed the girls’ mother was two months overdue in her pregnancy and had been sick.

After failing to find a cure, the woman reportedly left for Maputo to under go initiation and training in order to become a traditional healer.

The seven-year-old child allegedly had to look after both her father and younger sister after her mother left the country.

“I had to cook for my father and my younger sister,” the girl said.

Phori confirmed the man was later arrested, while the girls were being kept at KwaThema’s Victim Empowerment Centre.

They would be taken to a place of safety soon.

In a similar incident, a man was arrested for child negligence after his two children were found abandoned in a room on a property believed to be a “hijacked house” in Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg, in October last year.

The children, aged one and four, were found hungry and dehydrated, while one had a burn on his foot.

The property was alleged to have been used as brothel and drug den as well.

– Caxton News Service