More than a thousand children murdered each year
A total of one-thousand-128 South African children were murdered between April 2004 and March 2005. Die Burger reports that this information is part of the latest police statistics regarding crime against children, according to which there is an incident once every six minutes. The statistics were announced by safety and security minister Charles Nqakula, following the murder of the four-year-old Makgabo Bernice Matlala, granddaughter of Judge-President of the Transvaal Bernard Ngoepe. According to the statistics a total of 85-thousand-808 violent crimes were perpetrated in the same period. The statistics for the current year will only be finalised after the end of this month.
Meanwhile the post mortem on little Makgabo has been completed. According to Gauteng police spokesperson Mary Martins-Engelbrecht the results are not going to be made public, as they will be used in court as evidence. Police discovered Makgabo’s naked body on Thursday under a bed in her parents' home in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg. Beeld newspaper reports that she was apparently strangled, and her hands were tied behind her back with electrical cord.
Meanwhile the post mortem on little Makgabo has been completed. According to Gauteng police spokesperson Mary Martins-Engelbrecht the results are not going to be made public, as they will be used in court as evidence. Police discovered Makgabo’s naked body on Thursday under a bed in her parents' home in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg. Beeld newspaper reports that she was apparently strangled, and her hands were tied behind her back with electrical cord.
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