Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The North West Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, welcomed the 15 year imprisonment handed down to an Alabama couple for abusing their five children. One of the children, a new born baby died of hunger.
The 38-year-old mother and 46-year-old father were sentenced in the High Court sitting in Klerksdorp last week. They were charged with culpable homicide, two counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and child neglect. The parents who cannot be identified to protect the identity of the children, were arrested in 2021.
Lt Col Amanda Funani, police spokesperson, said the court heard horrific testimony of how the mother abused the children by hitting them, throwing them against the wall and withholding food from them. The children were aged between three weeks old and 13 years old.