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Taxi driver rapes, kills lover's baby
24 Sep 2015 at 21:03hrs | Views
THE deal was that they would go drinking and then they would go home and have sex. But when the woman changed her mind the meter-taxi driver took revenge and allegedly raped and murdered her baby.
According to Daily Sun, on Friday night Asithandile Mazomba (20) allegedly went drinking with a taxi driver in Kanana Section, Tembisa in Ekurhuleni, but took her 14-month-old daughter, Elam, with her to the tavern.
A friend of the young mother said Asithandile and the driver agreed at the tavern they would go to her place later and he would sleep over.
"But later she refused to have sex with him," said the friend.
She said the two were seen arguing loudly outside the tavern before they drove off.
Asithandile confirmed she went drinking with a taxi driver and his friend but said she never made a sex deal.
"We never went to the tavern because it was closed," she said.
"Later we dropped the friend off, but when we got to my place the driver pulled out a screwdriver and threatened me," she said.
She said she jumped out of the moving car with the child.
"My daughter fell on me and the man grabbed the baby and raced off," she said.
"I immediately went to the police station, but the man was nowhere to be found."
The following morning a resident told her a baby's body had been found in the bushes.
Captain Jethro Mtshali said they found a dead baby in the veld after a call from a resident.
The suspect (27) was found five hours later driving the same taxi.
He was detained and will appear in the Tembisa Magistrates Court today. Asithandile had to be saved from angry residents who wanted to beat her up.
Daily Sun
According to Daily Sun, on Friday night Asithandile Mazomba (20) allegedly went drinking with a taxi driver in Kanana Section, Tembisa in Ekurhuleni, but took her 14-month-old daughter, Elam, with her to the tavern.
A friend of the young mother said Asithandile and the driver agreed at the tavern they would go to her place later and he would sleep over.
"But later she refused to have sex with him," said the friend.
She said the two were seen arguing loudly outside the tavern before they drove off.
Asithandile confirmed she went drinking with a taxi driver and his friend but said she never made a sex deal.
"We never went to the tavern because it was closed," she said.
"Later we dropped the friend off, but when we got to my place the driver pulled out a screwdriver and threatened me," she said.
"My daughter fell on me and the man grabbed the baby and raced off," she said.
"I immediately went to the police station, but the man was nowhere to be found."
The following morning a resident told her a baby's body had been found in the bushes.
Captain Jethro Mtshali said they found a dead baby in the veld after a call from a resident.
The suspect (27) was found five hours later driving the same taxi.
He was detained and will appear in the Tembisa Magistrates Court today. Asithandile had to be saved from angry residents who wanted to beat her up.
Daily Sun
Source - Daily Sun
