KZN mom arrested for filicide, attempts to take own life
KwaZulu-Natal social workers were dispatched to a north coast municipality on Thursday where a woman is alleged to have murdered her two sons.
The KZN Department of Social Development says it's believed the nine-year-old boy was forced to drink a poisonous substance.
His one-year-old brother was strangled to death with a fence wire.
The 26-year-old woman, who's thought to have tried to take her own life by drinking a poisonous substance was found in their Umhlabuyalingana home on Monday.
She's in hospital under police guard.
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"We have noted with concern a number of incidents that has happened in our province that involve child abuse," says the department's Mhlabunzima Memela.
"These cases include cases of kidnapping, poisoning of children and in some cases there is also bullying and obviously the murder of children."
Meanwhile, two people are appearing in separate courts on Thursday in connection with cases of child murder.
One of them is a Durban mother who allegedly beat her toddler to death on Tuesday.
The other is a suspect arrested in connection with the murder of an Mbazawana teenage boy.
