Kids left to scavenge for food from dumping site while mother boozes
Published: 2013 May 21 09:58:08 (4551 Views)
Five children, including two-month-old twins, have been rescued and taken to a place of safety in South Africa.
Daily Sun was alerted to their plight on Sunday afternoon by Dikeledi Jacobs, who runs Malerato Centre for Hope where two of the sisters had gone for help.
Daily Sun went with Mamelodi East police to the one-roomed shack in Phomolong where the mother was found passed out.
The twins, a boy and girl, were found wrapped in a thin blanket and the boy's nappy was soaked in urine.
According to the children, they have to scavenge for food from a dumping site because their mum spends their monthly grants on booze. None of them attend school.
The kids claimed their mother doesn't buy groceries or clothing for them.
They said she beats them when she is drunk and tells them they are "disturbing her life with her boyfriend".
The children said their mum leaves the twins in their care while she goes to the tavern to drink.
When the mother woke up to find Daily Sun and the police at her doorstep, she shouted: "Take them all.
"I no longer want these kids. Take them!"
She could not produce birth certificates for the twins because they were in the hands of a loan shark from whom she had borrowed money.
The police drove the children to Malerato Centre where they will stay until Social Services finds them a suitable home.
The 40-year-old mother has nine kids, two boys and seven girls, by three different fathers.
- Daily sun
Daily Sun was alerted to their plight on Sunday afternoon by Dikeledi Jacobs, who runs Malerato Centre for Hope where two of the sisters had gone for help.
Daily Sun went with Mamelodi East police to the one-roomed shack in Phomolong where the mother was found passed out.
The twins, a boy and girl, were found wrapped in a thin blanket and the boy's nappy was soaked in urine.
According to the children, they have to scavenge for food from a dumping site because their mum spends their monthly grants on booze. None of them attend school.
The kids claimed their mother doesn't buy groceries or clothing for them.
They said she beats them when she is drunk and tells them they are "disturbing her life with her boyfriend".
The children said their mum leaves the twins in their care while she goes to the tavern to drink.
When the mother woke up to find Daily Sun and the police at her doorstep, she shouted: "Take them all.
"I no longer want these kids. Take them!"
She could not produce birth certificates for the twins because they were in the hands of a loan shark from whom she had borrowed money.
The police drove the children to Malerato Centre where they will stay until Social Services finds them a suitable home.
The 40-year-old mother has nine kids, two boys and seven girls, by three different fathers.
- Daily sun
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