A Soshanguve father of three has been found guilty of killing his 2-year-old son and attempting to kill his two other sons by feeding them viennas and russians laced with poison.
A Gauteng man has been found guilty of killing his 2-year-old son and attempting to kill his two other sons by feeding them viennas and russians laced with poison.A father of three from Soshanguve was found guilty of murdering his son and attempting to murder his two other children.He was also found guilty of raping the mother of his children.
He was also found guilty of three counts of contravening a protection order and raping the mother of his children with whom he had been in a relationship for 14 years.According to National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana, a protection order was granted to the mother of the three boys against the man on 8 January 2019.
On 24 August 2019, he fetched the 2-year-old boy from his mother and proceeded to fetch the other two boys, aged 8 and 11, from their paternal grandmother's place. He then took them to his residence, said Mahanjana.On their way, he fed them viennas and russians laced with poison. When the 11-year-old refused to eat the viennas, he assaulted and forced him to eat it.
"The mother arrived and found the lifeless body of the 2-year-old on top of his bed. She called the police and took the two other children to the hospital," Mahanjana said.
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