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This baby was found in a drain in Khayelitsha. Photo: Ayanda Ndamane<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two of the Cape\u2019s worst mothers appeared in the same court for crimes against their children on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Petronella Mosterd, 36, is accused of dumping her newborn in a drain near her Macassar home.<\/p>\n

While Babalwa Mkhosana, 28, is charged with child abuse after she allegedly tied her five-year-old son to a bed for hours.<\/p>\n

Mkhosana told her family she had to rush to work and that is why she locked the boy and her two-year-old niece in her Sir Lowry\u2019s Pass Village shack last week.<\/p>\n

Cops say neighbours heard the children scream and called the police.<\/p>\n

Warrant officer November Filander says: \u201cThe officers discovered the two children aged two and five years old left alone at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe five year old boy\u2019s leg was tied to the bed while the two-year-old girl managed to cry for assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The young mom\u2019s family was at court to support her and breathed a sigh of relief when she was released on free bail.<\/p>\n

Mkhosana\u2019s family also shielded her from the Daily Voice camera lens.<\/p>\n

Her relatives hid her under a jacket and escorted her into a vehicle before whisking her away from Somerset West Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n

Happy that they had evaded our lensman, a relative shouted: \u201cWe fooled you!\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Mkhosana\u2019s friend Nosimo Gwarubana slammed the arrested mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer children could have burnt in the shack while she was out working,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cBabalwa has many friends and I don\u2019t understand why she didn\u2019t take the children to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mkhosana is set to appear in the Somerset West Magistrates\u2019 Court in March.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mosterd\u2019s case will be heard next month in the regional court.<\/p>\n

She was charged with attempted murder after cops found her baby girl in a drain last October.<\/p>\n

Community members say the woman gave birth to her fourth child and simply threw it away.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said she couldn\u2019t take care of her children,\u201d says one of her neighbours.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut she keeps having children, why does she open her legs if she cannot afford having kids?\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents who saw her dumping the baby alerted cops who arrived in time to save the child who has now been named Miracle.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t try hard to hide the evil deed because it was in the morning when people were already awake,\u201d says a witness.<\/p>\n

She was released on bail in November last year. – Daily Voice<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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