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Missing two-year-old found dead in toilet
By Botho Molosankwe
The search for a missing toddler turned tragic when his body was found at the bottom of a toilet.
Two-year-old Teboho Tshabalala went missing on Saturday at Boitumelo informal settlement near Vereeniging, but his parents had clung to the hope that their little boy would turn up.
When the police pulled his body from the pit on Sunday, all that hope died. Crying inconsolably, Teboho's 27-year-old mother tried to run to where police found him, but community members restrained her.
A few hours later, as she sat in her shack pining for her son, Sibongile Tshabalala said she was battling to understand what could have happened.
"All this time that we were searching for him, I never thought he was in the toilet. I kept telling myself that someone must have stolen him."
Tshabalala said Teboho had gone with his six-year-old brother to watch a soccer match being played a few metres from their home.
At about 3pm she went to the soccer pitch to fetch the toddler because she wanted to bathe him. There was no one there.
She looked around the small settlement for the boys and found the six-year-old.
He had left Teboho at the football grounds.
"I scolded him and asked how he could leave the child there. We started looking for him in the bushes near the informal settlement.
"All along I thought he would be found, but I got scared when we could not find him because there are not a lot of shacks here."
Police were called. They combed the area and then went from house to house. Still the child was not found.
When they left after a few hours, the community started the search again in the dark.
When police returned on Sunday, they went to the toilets, where they found Teboho's body.
It is believed that one of the lids that covered the septic tank at the back of the toilet was left open and Teboho fell in.
Councillor Robert Jones said they would investigate how the manhole cover, usually screwed on tightly, came to be uncovered.
Midvaal Municipality will pay for the child's funeral.
http://www.sunday.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn2008091505553...
By Botho Molosankwe
The search for a missing toddler turned tragic when his body was found at the bottom of a toilet.
Two-year-old Teboho Tshabalala went missing on Saturday at Boitumelo informal settlement near Vereeniging, but his parents had clung to the hope that their little boy would turn up.
When the police pulled his body from the pit on Sunday, all that hope died. Crying inconsolably, Teboho's 27-year-old mother tried to run to where police found him, but community members restrained her.
A few hours later, as she sat in her shack pining for her son, Sibongile Tshabalala said she was battling to understand what could have happened.
"All this time that we were searching for him, I never thought he was in the toilet. I kept telling myself that someone must have stolen him."
Tshabalala said Teboho had gone with his six-year-old brother to watch a soccer match being played a few metres from their home.
At about 3pm she went to the soccer pitch to fetch the toddler because she wanted to bathe him. There was no one there.
She looked around the small settlement for the boys and found the six-year-old.
He had left Teboho at the football grounds.
"I scolded him and asked how he could leave the child there. We started looking for him in the bushes near the informal settlement.
"All along I thought he would be found, but I got scared when we could not find him because there are not a lot of shacks here."
Police were called. They combed the area and then went from house to house. Still the child was not found.
When they left after a few hours, the community started the search again in the dark.
When police returned on Sunday, they went to the toilets, where they found Teboho's body.
It is believed that one of the lids that covered the septic tank at the back of the toilet was left open and Teboho fell in.
Councillor Robert Jones said they would investigate how the manhole cover, usually screwed on tightly, came to be uncovered.
Midvaal Municipality will pay for the child's funeral.
http://www.sunday.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn2008091505553...
Tags: midvaal-municipality, missing-child, missing-children, missing-family-member, missing-loved-one, peace4-the-missing
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I completely agree, poor children!
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