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/ 5 December 2003

SA woman sentenced to 20 years for killing her son

A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for giving her young son a fatal overdose of an adult sleeping pill. Dunitze Venter, who was sentenced on Thursday, will be deported to South Africa after completing her prison term. She pleaded guilty in September to second-degree murder in the death of her four-year-old son, Kyle.