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Zephany Nurse expected to testify in sentencing proceedings

Zephany Nurse is expected to take the stand in the Cape Town High Court the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tuesday.

Speaking to TMG Digital‚ spokesman for the NPA in the Western Cape‚ Eric Ntabazalila‚ said that Nurse was “expected to testify”.

 On Monday‚ TimesLIVE reported that Nurse’s kidnapper believes that she is a mother by nature and did no wrong.

The woman‚ who snatched baby Zephany from her sleeping mother at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1997‚ still believes that she never committed a criminal offence.

This emerged during sentencing proceedings at the High Court in Cape Town on Monday. The 51-year-old has already been convicted of kidnapping‚ fraud and contraventions of sections of the Children’s Act.

The woman‚ who cannot be named‚ claimed that she had been given the baby – evidence rejected and described earlier in the trial as “astonishing” by Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe.

Clinical psychologist Mark Steyn presented a report into her criminal conduct in mitigation of sentence on Monday.

 He said that‚ even now‚ prisoners were asking her to nurture them. “[The accused] was of the opinion that she has not committed any offense‚” Steyn testified. — TMG Digital

 

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