Pregnant woman cut open, baby stolen for sacrifice
Published: 2013 August 03 06:57:51 (5794 Views)
A sangoma (traditional healer) in South Africa hatched an evil plan to make a barren woman fertile.
It meant cutting open a pregnant woman and stealing her baby, which would then be sacrificed.
Pregnant Gabisile Changa's body was set on fire and her charred body was found in a playground at Dawn Park in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.
But the sangoma's plot went 'wrong' when Gabisile's baby also died because she needed a live baby to kill.
The full story of the muthi madness that took the lives of the 24-year-old mother and her baby emerged yesterday when cops bust the sangoma, her son and two other local men.
Also arrested was Gabisile's neighbour who befriended her and pretended to be pregnant.
The charges against all five are kidnapping and murder.
According to Gabisile's traditional husband, Siphiwe Ngcongo (37), the two women both seemed excited about giving birth.
"They talked of bringing them up together as friends."
They started taking trips to a local money lender, unknown to Siphiwe, where the neighbour was supposed to get money to buy baby clothes.
Siphiwe told Daily Sun when he came home from work at 2pm on Wednesday, Gabisile was not at home. But the neighbour turned up holding a baby.
He didn't realise it, but the "friend" had turned on Gabisile, opened her up and stole her baby from her womb.
"I was shocked to see her and asked where Gabisile was," said Siphiwe. "She couldn't tell me."
Angry residents told Daily Sun they tracked the woman down to the sangoma's house, where she was turned away because the baby was already dead!
The shocking saga ended when the desperate woman took the dead child to Tambo Hospital in Boksburg and tried to swop it for a living baby – but she was grabbed by nurses!
Meanwhile, a search for Gabisile continued the whole night. It wasn't until early yesterday that her body was discovered in a pile of rubbish by two security guards in the playground next to Dawn Park Clinic.
Traumatised Siphiwe could not believe the horror that had happened to the mother of two children, aged six and two.
"I have never seen anything like this. She was a very sweet woman who never had a grudge against anyone," Siphiwe said.
But there was no answer to the biggest question in his Siphiwe's mind: Who burnt the body?
Five suspects are already in jail.
The infertile woman the sangoma was supposed to help has not been identified.
Cop spokesman Captain Mega Ndobe confirmed the arrest of the sangoma, her son, two helpers and the woman neighbour.
- Dailysun
It meant cutting open a pregnant woman and stealing her baby, which would then be sacrificed.
Pregnant Gabisile Changa's body was set on fire and her charred body was found in a playground at Dawn Park in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.
But the sangoma's plot went 'wrong' when Gabisile's baby also died because she needed a live baby to kill.
The full story of the muthi madness that took the lives of the 24-year-old mother and her baby emerged yesterday when cops bust the sangoma, her son and two other local men.
Also arrested was Gabisile's neighbour who befriended her and pretended to be pregnant.
The charges against all five are kidnapping and murder.
According to Gabisile's traditional husband, Siphiwe Ngcongo (37), the two women both seemed excited about giving birth.
"They talked of bringing them up together as friends."
They started taking trips to a local money lender, unknown to Siphiwe, where the neighbour was supposed to get money to buy baby clothes.
Siphiwe told Daily Sun when he came home from work at 2pm on Wednesday, Gabisile was not at home. But the neighbour turned up holding a baby.
He didn't realise it, but the "friend" had turned on Gabisile, opened her up and stole her baby from her womb.
"I was shocked to see her and asked where Gabisile was," said Siphiwe. "She couldn't tell me."
Angry residents told Daily Sun they tracked the woman down to the sangoma's house, where she was turned away because the baby was already dead!
The shocking saga ended when the desperate woman took the dead child to Tambo Hospital in Boksburg and tried to swop it for a living baby – but she was grabbed by nurses!
Meanwhile, a search for Gabisile continued the whole night. It wasn't until early yesterday that her body was discovered in a pile of rubbish by two security guards in the playground next to Dawn Park Clinic.
Traumatised Siphiwe could not believe the horror that had happened to the mother of two children, aged six and two.
"I have never seen anything like this. She was a very sweet woman who never had a grudge against anyone," Siphiwe said.
But there was no answer to the biggest question in his Siphiwe's mind: Who burnt the body?
Five suspects are already in jail.
The infertile woman the sangoma was supposed to help has not been identified.
Cop spokesman Captain Mega Ndobe confirmed the arrest of the sangoma, her son, two helpers and the woman neighbour.
- Dailysun
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