Posted on 03/24/2006 10:09:50 AM PST by VU4G10
A four-year-old boy died after he was brutally assaulted when he refused to call his mother's lesbian lover "Daddy", The Star newspaper reported on Thursday.
Jandre's mother, Hanelie Botha (31), and her partner Engeline de Nysschen (33) appeared in the Vereeniging Regional Court on Wednesday and were found guilty of the boy's gruesome murder.
His father, Jan, sat in court holding the hands of his fiancée, Yolanda Deysel, and listened attentively to Magistrate Rita Willemse, who in her judgement, accepted evidence that among the reasons that led to Jandre's brutal ordeal was his refusal to call De Nysschen "Daddy", the paper said.
The court had heard evidence from Lydia Nkomo and her daughter Aletta Lesiba, who worked for the couple in their tuckshop, that De Nysschen had viciously assaulted Jandre while demanding that he must call her "Daddy".
Both testified that while Jandre was assaulted, his mother failed to intervene or protect him. Evidence showed he had sustained horrific injuries, including a fractured skull and brain damage, as well as broken legs, collarbone, hands and pelvis.
The court accepted the evidence of Professor Mohammed Dada, a trauma expert, who said the boy's injuries were similar to those of a person who had fallen from a double-storey building.
Delivering judgement, Willemse acknowledged there was no substantial evidence linking Hanelie to the assaults, but said she was equally guilty of murder for failing in her legal duty to protect her child against abuse and violation.
The court found she had lied to Dr Elna Gibson, one of the medical doctors who treated Jandre, by saying the boy got his injuries after he had slipped in the bath.
The doctors who had examined Jandre dismissed the pair's version that he had slipped in the bath. They said excessive force was required to inflict the kind of fatal injuries sustained by Jandre.
Convicting the two, Willemse dismissed their version and said there was substantial medical evidence before her about the nature of the injuries suffered by Jandre.
The case was postponed until June 26 for a pre-sentencing report. - Sapa
Johannesburg, South Africa 23 March 2006 08:04
....word fail.
This is too sick for words.
I thank the Lord that this little one is safe now with Jesus in Heaven, far away from this sick sick world.
Jeez.
These things wouldn't happen if we'd just allow them to marry, you know! /brain-dead mode off
I wish I didn't have to read this:
a four year old boy..."sustained horrific injuries, including a fractured skull and brain damage, as well as broken legs, collarbone, hands and pelvis."
It makes me feel sick to the stomach. Sick with anger and revulsion.
Makes me think that the old ways of public execution, hanging drawing and quartering may not have been wrong.
Would certainly have reduced the chances of this sort of thing this happening again.
Just one more valid reason to kill the innocent and defenseless. Sarc
A Moose-limb as an expert on trauma.
There are some many things wrong in this story; it's like a melting pot of human debris.
Prayers for the little boy's soul.
The meaning was quite clear to me -- homosexuals should not be allowed to adopt children. Plain and simple.
"Freaks should not be allowed to adopt children.
"
I believe one of the women was the boy's natural mother, so that doesn't really come into play here.
Reply:
I'm not sure I get your meaning here ... unless that woman had prior charge/evidence of child abuse… I'm sure the question doesn't come up in adoption interviews, "If you insist on being called *Daddy* and the child refuses, how will you react?"
I think "Are you a lesbian?" would take care of it, don't you?
"Hard to understand why the authorities even consider letting people like this adopt children."
I believe that the boy was the biological son of one of the women, so this doesn't really apply.
Follow Florida's lead. NO GAY ADOPTIONS!
They need to send this butch kid killing bitch to a male prision.....
"Follow Florida's lead. NO GAY ADOPTIONS!"
How would that have changed this ugly situation? From my reading of the story, the boy was the natural son of one of the women.
How many children adopted by lesbians have been murdered, do you think? How many people adopted by heterosexuals have been murdered?
I don't know the answer to either question.
He was a witness for the prosecution. He essentaially stated that what those dyke hell b!tches did to the poor boy was an equivalent to a two story drop.
Without his testimony, they might have gotten a more lenient sentence or worse, gotten off because there was no one to contradict the dykes' claims.
I believe one of the women was the boy's natural mother, so that doesn't really come into play here.
Sure it does. She should have had the kid taken away from her for putting him in an environment dangerous to the morals (and life) of a minor.
And before anyone begins to bash me, I am not in favor of homosexual marriage, totally against it, I think it is a sure road to destruction. But I don't see this problem as inherent to homosexual adoption.
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