A woman tasked with caring for a 20-month-old boy has been arrested for allegedly strangling him to death, TimesLive reports.
28-year-old Lerato Mnguni hired the nanny through a placement agency in Tembisa and she had been caring for the child since he was only two months old. She lived with the family on their property.
Mnguni returned from work to her home in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni, last Friday to find her son Langelihle gone, with the carer claiming he had been abducted.
His body was, however, discovered in a storeroom on the property not long afterwards. Despite the efforts of his 40-year-old father Sihle to resuscitate him for over an hour, Langelihle didn’t make it.
While the carer claimed that both herself and the child were forced to consume poison by intruders, a post-mortem revealed that the boy had been strangled and had a fractured neck. No poison was involved.