Mother who killed her baby faces murder charge – The Monitor

Name of article: Mother who killed her baby faces murder charge

Name of journalist: Tebogo Kgalemang

Name of publisher: The Monitor

Date: 23 May 2011

Country: Botswana

Theme: Justice system

Skills: Fairness

Genre: News

GEM classification: Gender aware

Description

Judge Terrence Rannowane has convicted a 27 year old woman who strangled her two month old infant to death, to murder with extenuating circumstances. Judge Rannowane said he accepts that Atamelang Lesole was intoxicated at the time she committed the offence .”I will accept therefore that she was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the offence and that such amounted to extenuating,” said Judge Rannowane.

Lesole is said to have smothered her baby after one of her relatives inquired as to where she had been and why she had gone for a long time, leaving a small child behind.

Lesole then responded saying, “Ke tla soka golo moo ga lona molala ga a swa,” which means “I will strangle that thing of yours to death.”The relatives later left whereupon the accused killed the baby.The baby died of asphyxia due to smothering.

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