She appeared before the Nigel Magistrate's Court on Monday for the murder of her 16-year-old son and attempted murder of her seven-year-old daughter.Father turns himself in to police after children wake up to find mother's bodyAfter poisoning them, she drove to the Free State with them, according to Gauteng National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana.
"[W]hen they got to Frankfort [in the] Free State, the children started falling ill. She then took them to the nearest hospital. "Upon arrival, the boy child passed on and the girl was admitted and has been in ICU since then," Mahanjana added. When the doctor realised that the children had been poisoned, he called the police, who interviewed the mother.She admitted to poisoning the children because she had been scammed of a large amount of money and had no means to take care of the children, [not] even to pay school fees.The woman told the court that she intended to plead not guilty to the charges and the case was postponed to 24 August for further investigation.to be part of the conversation in the comments section of this article.
So this thing of poisoning kids is a thing now. SAPoliceService please make it stop.