/ 2 February 2001

MOTHER IN COURT FOR THROTTLING BABY

A DESPERATE, jobless woman who strangled her third baby and threw him down a pit toilet has appeared in the Nelspruit Regional Court. Marriet Myeni, 33, of Masibekela tribal trust near Malelane, told the court she was desperate when she killed her little boy on April 23 last year, because she had two other children to raise. The dead child’s father was married to another woman and lived in Swaziland. Myeni is out on R1 000 bail. – African Eye News Service