'Boozing' mum beaten up by neighbours for leaving baby alone at night
Published: 2013 April 02 10:05:29 (2768 Views)
A woman was beaten up in Khayelitsha squatter camp outside Bloemfontein, South Africa.
She had to shield her face as women slapped her again and again.
They were punishing her for leaving her three-year-old son alone all Sunday night while she was out boozing.
Daily Sun reported that the women were shouting: "We want to teach her a lesson! She is careless to leave her child alone."
A neighbour, Thabang Seleke, said the boy came to her at 9pm on Sunday.
"I was outside when I saw the child standing at my gate," she said. "I called my neighbours and we went to look for the boy's mother at her shack.
"We found a suicide note and lots of tablets, but the mother was not there. I took the boy to sleep at my house for the night."
Another neighbour, Sarah Masole, said: "The boy was hit by a bicycle a few days ago. His mother is so uncaring that she left him alone in the shack with a plaster cast on his leg.
"She loves to go boozing."
The suicide note contains this phrase: "I ask God to look after my child. I also ask my parents' forgiveness."
But the child's mother, who identified herself as Mantwa, denied being a careless mum.
"My lock was broken and I went to look for a man who could fix it. When I came back my boy was missing and I wanted to commit suicide with my diabetes pills, but I couldn't drink them."
Now she is back in her shack with her son, under the watchful eyes of her neighbours.
- DailySun
She had to shield her face as women slapped her again and again.
They were punishing her for leaving her three-year-old son alone all Sunday night while she was out boozing.
Daily Sun reported that the women were shouting: "We want to teach her a lesson! She is careless to leave her child alone."
A neighbour, Thabang Seleke, said the boy came to her at 9pm on Sunday.
"I was outside when I saw the child standing at my gate," she said. "I called my neighbours and we went to look for the boy's mother at her shack.
"We found a suicide note and lots of tablets, but the mother was not there. I took the boy to sleep at my house for the night."
Another neighbour, Sarah Masole, said: "The boy was hit by a bicycle a few days ago. His mother is so uncaring that she left him alone in the shack with a plaster cast on his leg.
"She loves to go boozing."
The suicide note contains this phrase: "I ask God to look after my child. I also ask my parents' forgiveness."
But the child's mother, who identified herself as Mantwa, denied being a careless mum.
"My lock was broken and I went to look for a man who could fix it. When I came back my boy was missing and I wanted to commit suicide with my diabetes pills, but I couldn't drink them."
Now she is back in her shack with her son, under the watchful eyes of her neighbours.
- DailySun
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