BOOTED OUT Court evicts abusive son from his parents’ home
He calls us dogs, says we should fuck off and go to hell
A fed up 80-year-old mother, Gobotsamang Sesu and her 92-year-old blind husband on Monday appeared before Kanye Magistrate Court to evict their 49-year-old son from their home.
The elderly parents, mother partially blind and the father completely blind and finding his way inside court through a walking cane, told the court that they are fed up with their son, Kenanao Sesu, who worked as a teacher at Ntlhantlhe Junior Secondary School but told the court that he has been recently dismissed from the public service.
A teary and distraught mother Gobotsamang told the court that her son disrupted peace at their home and that she had previously reported him to other family members including his uncles. When that did not help, she took him before the Kanye customary court but his bad behaviour has not changed.
“My son insults us like young children, he sometimes tells us to fuck off and go to hell,” the old woman said, adding that their son, Kenanao, sometimes threatens to kill his 10-year-old nephew by telling the child that he will pick him and smash him against the wall.
Gobotsamang told the court that she begs for a one-year restraining order against her son because he has been consistently disrespecting them and evading work to sleep and drink alcohol inside his bedroom several times. “He smokes inside the bedroom and his blind father is asthmatic so I struggle to care for the father whenever he inhales the cigarette smoke,” she lamented.
The blind father kept murmuring from the back court benches in full agreement with his wife, Gobotsamang. “Ke tlile fa molaong o mogolwane gore ngwanake a tswe mo lapeng lame,” she said as she pleaded with the court to evict the son from her home.” The distressed mother revealed that his third born often calls her a dog and insults other siblings at home.
The concerned son, Kenanao Sesu, defended himself and told the Magistrate that he built the house that he is being chased from. He said his mother is only evicting him because he is unemployed. “I built our family house 20 years ago and I do not agree with my parents evicting me from home,” he said.
The presiding Magistrate asked Kenanao what he was doing the other 20 years of his life, as he long worked for the public service and never considered to build his own home.
His mother told the court that her son did not build the house from scratch but only extended the three rooms they already had.
“I long told him to pay for my time for carrying him for nine months and raising him as a mother,” she said, adding that she struggled to raise her son into the man he is, struggling and doing casual jobs, only for him to insult her in return.
The court ruled that the son be evicted from his parents’ home. He was also ordered not to come within a radius of 100 metres radius from his parents. The police were ordered to escort him to take all his belongings from his family’s house. He was warned that he will be imprisoned if he disobeys the order.
In an interview with The Midweek Sun, the family uncle, Radikokwana David Maswabi said he long tried to convince Kenanao to respect his parents but he never listened to him. “He often invited friends to his bedroom, they would drink and smoke inside the room while other relatives are in the house,” he said.
For his part, Kenanao said his mother only chased him away from the family house because he was recently dismissed from work.
“My sister is her golden child despite that she never worked her entire life. She just recently found a job of cleaning public toilets now they do not want me near them,” he said.