Mom suspected of living with 4 dead children

A WOMAN who was arrested for allegedly killing her four children in Klarinet in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga, might have spent some days with their bodies in her rented room, her landlord Matilda Mahlangu said.

Mahlangu said she and her other tenants became suspicious on Sunday afternoon, when they saw flies between the curtains and windows of the room.

“There was also an unbearable smell in the whole yard,” said Mahlangu.

“One of my tenants asked her where her children were and she said she had taken them to a relative.

“We asked her to open the room’s door, but she refused.

“We then broke the door open and called the police.

“It appeared as if she has been sleeping on the floor next to the bodies,” she said.

Mahlangu said she last saw the children – two girls, aged 4 and 8, and two boys, aged 7 years and 11 months old – on December22 in her yard.

On Sunday, Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said the 30-year-old woman handed herself over to the Vosman police while they were at the scene, adding that the bodies were in the early stages of decomposition.

On Monday, Hlathi said the woman had been admitted to hospital on Sunday night, but he did not reveal the reason.

“She will appear in court on Wednesday (today) on four counts of murder if she is discharged from the hospital,” said Hlathi.

He said her case would be heard in court in her absence if she was not discharged. |