Overview

• The child’s mother reported an assault at Malamulele police station and told officers the boyfriend had repeatedly beaten the baby.
• Police accompanied her to Jimmy Jones village, where they found the infant lifeless with visible head and facial injuries.
• Emergency medical services certified the death at the scene, and officers opened a murder case after the suspect had fled.
• Detectives arrested the 18-year-old later that night at about 10 pm, according to police spokesperson Malesela Ledwaba.
• Provincial commissioner Lt Gen Thembi Hadebe condemned the killing as a heartbreaking act of violence that no child should endure.