DAD REPORTED FOR ASSAULTING 2 KIDS

MBABANE – Appalling! This is one word which best describes the alleged abuse suffered by children in the hands of their guardians.

The situation has been so bad that neighbours have decided to blow the whistle on the parents of the children. The family lives in a one-room flat at Sicelwini in Manzini.
According to the neighbours, *Thabo the father, assaulted two of the three children, a boy and a girl aged four and five respectively, and left them with visible welts all over the body. The girl was also allegedly hit on the hand until she bled.

The only sin of the children was that they had misplaced the house keys. The neighbour said at the time, *Thoko, the children’s mother, was at the hospital, taking care of her first born daughter.
“The man beats the children now and again, but what we saw on that particular day was terrible,” the neighbour said.
The neighbour alleged that when Thoko fell in love with Thabo, she had two children, *Nosizo (5) and Simphiwe (12). She further said that she then gave birth to two boys and the youngest is two years old.

She said Simphiwe lived with her grandparents in Nhlangano, but would now and again visit her mother’s flat. She said Nosizo was the most affected by the abuse, as she sometimes sleeps outside in a shack.
“On cold nights like this, Nosizo sometimes sleeps outside without anyone caring from the family and is exposed to rape, snakes and the cold. Please ask the social workers to help get her a safe place,” she said.
She said the mother was sometimes away from home, and leaves the children with her lover. The neighbour said on this particular day, they took the children to the nearest police station, where they were kept by the officers until their mother went to fetch them.

“She was at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital on this particular day and the police fetched her, and she returned home with her children,” she said. She alleged that the police did not arrest the man, and the children are still staying with him.
She said another neighbour decided to take the children in for the weekend and took care of them, while the mother was away, but they had since returned to their mother’s flat.
“We are really worried about the fate of these children because the mother is always away at the hospital where she is taking care of Simphiwe,” she said.

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