I SOLD MY BABY FOR R4000 MOTHER CONFESSES

SHE FREELY admits to selling her six-month-
old baby.
At only 34, she already has three children and
didn’t want another one.
SO SHE SOLD HER CHILD FOR ONLY R4000.

Ekurhuleni confessing to local induna Richard
Mdlalose that her six-month-old baby boy was
now with a woman in Bergville, KZN.
“We had nowhere to stay and we spent many
nights sleeping in the veld so I decided to sell my
child for R4 000,” she told the induna.

Mdlalose asked her what she did with the
money. “I bought booze. I have too much stress
in my life. All I wanted was to forget my
troubles.”

She said she sold her son because she wants the
best for him and wants him to get love and
attention. “I know what I did was wrong and I
feel guilty about it,” she said.

But Sbongile Mokoena, a neighbour, said the
child’s mother has just been having a good time.
“She’s been drinking and dancing in the local
tavern as if she has no kids,” she said.

“She’s been spending money and buying booze
as if she has no responsibilities. We didn’t know
where the money came from but now we know
she sold her son so she could buy booze.”

Sbongile said the child must be brought back to
the woman’s family so they can take care of him.

“This is an evil woman,” she said.
The woman’s aunt said she was under the
impression the child was with his mother and
father in Katlehong.

“She has disgraced our family,” said the aunt.
“She should have taken the baby to her
grandmother at KwaNongoma in KZN. We

already support the other three children. Now
the boy is in the hands of strangers.”
Daily Sun spoke to Nomsa Khumalo (25), but she
denied buying the baby. “I took the baby
because I saw the mother and child were
suffering and sleeping in the veld.

My arrangement was that I would keep the child
until his mother had sorted out a place to stay,”
she said.
She said she will look for the mother’s family to
return the child.

“I regret helping her. I was practising ubuntu but
now people accuse me of being a thief.”
While the mother told Daily Sun the baby went
to Nomsa in June, a neighbour has told the
People’s Paper the baby was only sold last
Tuesday.

Katlehong police spokesman Captain Mega
Ndobe said a case of child neglect has been
opened.
He said the mother of the baby has been
arrested and will appear in the Palm Ridge
Magistrates Court yesterday.

Source:DailySun