Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said: “The victim, aged 13, and her brother, allege that they were asleep in different bedrooms in their house when they suddenly heard a noise.
Dead baby found in mumâs room! Tlangelani Khosa
Comments A forensic pathology worker removes the badly decomposed body of baby Rethabile from his mumâs bedroom on Tuesday. Photo by Tlangelani Khosa.
THE Mashile family was happy when their daughter gave birth to Rethabile four months ago.
However, the excitement ended in tears on Tuesday when the family discovered that the mum had kept the baby’s decomposing body in her room in Buffelshoek Village near Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.
Shocked uncle Temoolo told Daily Sun that their gogo kept asking about the baby’s whereabouts, to which the mum lied, saying that she was asleep.