A South African police officer who works for
a special child protection
unit never imagined that one day her own
child would be brutally
murdered and dumped in a river by her
disgruntled ex-lover.
On
June 1, an emotional Sergeant Nancy
Lesenya, of Mzombani near Mokopane
in Limpopo, spoke of her pain. Lesenya’s ex-
lover Jimmy Makhubela
appeared in the Mokerong Magistrate’s Court
on Monday on charges of kidnapping.
Police
are now expected to add a murder charge to
the docket after Makhubela
allegedly pointed out where the body was
dumped. Makhubela apparently
argued with Lesenya a day before the nine-
year-old boy went missing.
Lesenya’s
son Katlego is a third child to be killed in
Limpopo in the past four
days, as SA marks National Child Protection
Week. Police
spokeswoman Colonel Ronel Otto yesterday
said two other suspects were
arrested in connection with the kidnapping
and murder of two
five-year-old girls. Otto said the naked bodies
of friends Lekwelo
Masola and Nthabiseng Motlaphema were
found hanging from a tree near
Ribone village in Gilead three days ago.
Speaking to Sowetan yesterday, Lesenya said
she spent days worried about her son after
he disappeared on May 21. The
officer, who has worked for the family
violence, child protection and
sexual unit for the past nine years, said she
never thought her child
would one day be a victim of crime.
“I never thought this would
ever happen to me. I couldn’t eat. I kept
waiting by the stoep hoping
that he’d come home. When he left the
house he was wearing a vest, so I
kept wondering whether he was warm,”
Lesenya said.
She said her youngest child has also been
asking about her brother’s whereabouts.
“It’s been hard because she keeps asking
me, ‘where is Katli?'”
Lesenya
said she went looking for her child when it
started getting late and he
wasn’t home. She said another child who
was playing with Katlego in the
street helped to identify the car that
allegedly picked him up.
“When
I realised who it was, I thought he would
bring him back. I used to
trust him with the children and even ask him
to pick them up from school
when I was working far away,” Lesenya said.
But Katlego never came home until his body
was discovered by members of the police
search and rescue team on Monday. Otto
said Katlego’s body was found after the
suspect pointed out the area .
Otto said he allegedly threw the body from a
bridge into a shallow
river.
She said a postmortem would be conducted
to determine the cause of death while
investigations continued. Lesenya
said she found comfort in that she would be
able to bury her son.
“I
have found closure. A dead body is better
than not knowing what
happened.”
The child’s father Medupe Lesenya,
who is a soldier, clutched an orange cloth
while wiping tears from his
eyes. He recalled how he rushed from
Johannesburg to Mokopane after
being told his son was missing. Medupe said
he felt that the police did
not do enough to search for his son.
“I
kept asking how far they were with my
child’s case. They failed my
child. They only started looking when they
heard the story being aired
on the radio.”
Colonel Ronel Otto said it was not true. “We
have been working with the mother of the
child since he went missing.”
She said the police had followed up every
lead that came through. Yesterday,
burnt tyres near the family home told of
sleepless nights spent by
concerned neighbours helping with the
search for Katlego, a pupil at
Mokopane Primary School.

SOURCE:- http://stormng.ml/2016/06/03/disgruntled-lover-kidnapped-murdered-ex-girlfriends-9-year-old-son-dumped-body-river/


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