Four life sentences for Witbank mom who poisoned her children

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Witbank mother Zinhle Maditla was on Friday sentenced to four life terms for feeding rat poison to her four children, aged between 11 months and eight years old.

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Witbank mother Zinhle Maditla was on Friday sentenced to four life terms for feeding rat poison to her four children, aged between 11 months and eight years.that, handing down sentence, judge Sheila Mphahlele said, “Their mother was meant to nurture and protect them ... She betrayed her own children.”

Maditla was standing trial in the Mpumalanga high court, where she apologised to her family and both the fathers of her late children this week.were killed on December 26. She confessed to a friend four days later.had gone to meet the father of two of her children, who had promised to buy them food and Christmas clothes, when she allegedly found him with another woman. She said an argument ensued.

“She wrote that she misses her children and how she wishes that she can reverse what happened but, painfully, she will live without her children for the rest of her life,” said Balance.

 

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