Pretoria – The mother of a 3-year-old girl who died when a fire engulfed her Mpumalanga shack faces charges of child neglect and culpable homicide.
“Reports indicate that the victim and her siblings, aged seven and nine years old, were left alone by their mother in the shack where they stay. When she returned from where she was, she found the shack engulfed in flames and immediately called for help,” he said. In a similar incident in the province, two girls aged seven and eight were burnt to death in a house fire in Masoyi on Friday after also being left on their own.
’’Their uncle was visiting neighbours at the time and it is said that he was notified by one of the neighbours that a spotlight at the house where the children were asleep was off,” said Mdhluli.