Burned with a hot iron and cigerettes‚ sexually assaulted and beaten with belts‚ rulers and spoons.
That’s the abuse slain Chatsworth toddler Jamie Faith Naidoo and her siblings endured at the hands of their mother and grandmother‚ the state alleges.
The indictment presented at the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday details years of alleged abuse which eventually led to the three-year-old’s brutal death in November last year.
Jamie’s maternal grandmother Salatchee Basarich‚ 55‚ and the child’s 31-year-old mother‚ Patricia Keshnie Ishwarlall‚ allegedly a sex worker and drug addict‚ have been found fit to stand trial and will appear in the Durban High Court in December.
Basarich has been charged with Jamie’s murder and rape in addition to the abuse and sexual assault of her nine-year-old grandson and seven-year-old granddaughter.
Ishwarlall‚ who is alleged to have tried to sell Jamie for R100 when she was six months old‚ will stand trial for allegedly abusing her three children.
According to the indictment‚ the two older children were abused from November 2007 until November 19 last year when Jamie died.
The state alleges that they were made to beg at street corners at the Durban beachfront‚ beaten when they refused and denied medical treatment for serious injuries sustained in the abuse.
It further alleges that two children were ordered not to share their food with Jamie.
On November 17 last year‚ Basarich allegedly slapped and pushed Jamie and then instructed her two-year-old granddaughter to hit the toddler with a ruler.
Jamie was allegedly tied to a bed overnight.
Basarich allegedly continued the torment until the third night when Jamie succumbed to her injuries.
The post mortem established the cause of death as “blunt head trauma following fatal child abuse”.
Jamie’s paternal grandfather‚ Vivian van Vuuren‚ on Thursday said he would remain angry for “a very long time” over the court’s decision to award custody of their granddaughter to Basanich.
Van Vuuren had objected to placement and asked the court to allow Jamie to live with his family in the Western Cape but custody was award to Basanich in 2011.
He is currently trying to adopt Jamie’s younger sister‚ who has been placed with the two other siblings in a children’s home.
“We don’t care if she is our son’s child or not. We have started the process and we want that child to have the home that we wanted so desperately to give to our Jamie‚” he said.
He has lost contact with his son‚ Dimitri‚ 31‚ Jamie’s father‚ shortly after the funeral last year.
Dimitri was released from a Durban prison last year after serving time for a drugs-related offence‚ and was living in the city centre at the time of Jamie’s death.
Years of alleged abuse laid bare in toddler murder case
Burned with a hot iron and cigerettes‚ sexually assaulted and beaten with belts‚ rulers and spoons.
That’s the abuse slain Chatsworth toddler Jamie Faith Naidoo and her siblings endured at the hands of their mother and grandmother‚ the state alleges.
The indictment presented at the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday details years of alleged abuse which eventually led to the three-year-old’s brutal death in November last year.
Jamie’s maternal grandmother Salatchee Basarich‚ 55‚ and the child’s 31-year-old mother‚ Patricia Keshnie Ishwarlall‚ allegedly a sex worker and drug addict‚ have been found fit to stand trial and will appear in the Durban High Court in December.
Basarich has been charged with Jamie’s murder and rape in addition to the abuse and sexual assault of her nine-year-old grandson and seven-year-old granddaughter.
Ishwarlall‚ who is alleged to have tried to sell Jamie for R100 when she was six months old‚ will stand trial for allegedly abusing her three children.
According to the indictment‚ the two older children were abused from November 2007 until November 19 last year when Jamie died.
The state alleges that they were made to beg at street corners at the Durban beachfront‚ beaten when they refused and denied medical treatment for serious injuries sustained in the abuse.
It further alleges that two children were ordered not to share their food with Jamie.
On November 17 last year‚ Basarich allegedly slapped and pushed Jamie and then instructed her two-year-old granddaughter to hit the toddler with a ruler.
Jamie was allegedly tied to a bed overnight.
Basarich allegedly continued the torment until the third night when Jamie succumbed to her injuries.
The post mortem established the cause of death as “blunt head trauma following fatal child abuse”.
Jamie’s paternal grandfather‚ Vivian van Vuuren‚ on Thursday said he would remain angry for “a very long time” over the court’s decision to award custody of their granddaughter to Basanich.
Van Vuuren had objected to placement and asked the court to allow Jamie to live with his family in the Western Cape but custody was award to Basanich in 2011.
He is currently trying to adopt Jamie’s younger sister‚ who has been placed with the two other siblings in a children’s home.
“We don’t care if she is our son’s child or not. We have started the process and we want that child to have the home that we wanted so desperately to give to our Jamie‚” he said.
He has lost contact with his son‚ Dimitri‚ 31‚ Jamie’s father‚ shortly after the funeral last year.
Dimitri was released from a Durban prison last year after serving time for a drugs-related offence‚ and was living in the city centre at the time of Jamie’s death.
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