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24 January 2014 Year 24 Vol: 19
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Woman accused of hacking boy with panga
She sucked his blood By Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
The family of eight-year-old Grade 3 pupil Ento Ngobeni is reeling with shock after a female neighbour had allegedly hacked the child with a panga and sucked the blood from his raw wounds.
Above: Ento (8) was hacked on the head with a panga. Left: The young victim’s cut hand. Right; The young victim’s aunt, Ms Blessing Hlongwane, holds her nephew in her arms. Also in the picture is Ento’s grandmother and guardian, Ms Tintswalo Hlongwane.
The incident took place last Monday. During Limpopo Mirror’s visit to the family in Waterval earlier this week, Ento’s grandmother and guardian, Ms Tintswalo Hlongwane (55), told the newspaper that the family was still traumatised after the ghastly incident. “My grandson’s peers rushed into my
house and informed me that a woman had locked my grandson inside her house and that he was screaming for help,” said Hlongwane. She and her daughter, Blessing, immediately ran to her neighbour’s stand and knocked on the door and tried to open it, but the kitchen door was locked. They said that they had knocked and shouted out the woman’s name, begging her to open the door. All along they could hear Ento screaming from inside the house. “When the door was finally opened, there in the doorway, she was on her knees, staring up at us with pleading eyes,” said Hlongwane. “She said, ‘Sesi Maggie, ni vavisile n’wana (My sister Maggie, I have injured the child)’. Her cheeks and lips were covered with fresh blood.” Hlongwane and Blessing finally managed to get through to young Ento, who had been locked inside the indoor toilet. - Continues on p2
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