(Crime): Mother arrested for Killing her 4 Children with a Sledgehammer in South Africa

News coming from South African has it that a mother has been arrested for allegedly killing her four children with a sledgehammer.

The police spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, said detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murders, which occurred in rural Mhlabubomvu, Engcobo.

According to the statement issued, the 32-year-old mother together with her four children, aged between 2 and 11, were sleeping in their home in the village. In the morning, four deceased bodies of the children were found in the Rondavel hut where they were sleeping.

Preliminary investigation reveals that they had been assaulted by their own mother with a sledgehammer. Consequently, they suffered serious injuries to the upper bodies.

The woman was immediately arrested and will be charged for murder. She is expected to appear in Engcobo Magistrate’s Court once charged.

 It has being alleged that their mother wanted to make sure she dies without leaving them behind.

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