MALAIKA MAHLATSI | SA a dangerous place for children to grow up

Pregnant women induce a feeling of crippling anxiety for kids

Just over a week ago, Bokgabo Poo of Wattville in Ekurhuleni went missing. The abduction of the four-year-old child was all over the news due to the story going viral on social media. Everyone was sharing smiling photos of the beautiful little girl, doing the best they could to help her family locate her.

But just a few days later, her mutilated body would be found – some of it in an open veld. Other parts of Bokgabo’s body were found by an old woman who was sweeping her yard, who found toes and later a leg buried in a shallow grave. The child had been viciously raped before being brutally murdered...

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