Langelihle Mnguni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSouth African police force has arrested a nanny after a 20-month-old boy Langelihle Mnguni whom she was hired to care for was found dead in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s mother, 28-year-old Lerato Mngun, from Daveyton in Ekurhuleni, speaking on the sad incident said she hired the nanny through a Tembisa-based placement agency when her son, Langelihle, was two months old.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? I just want to know why,\u201d said Lerato Mnguni.<\/p>\n
Tragedy struck last Friday when Lerato returned from work with her aunt and found the security gate locked but the door unlocked. The keys were thrown on to the kitchen floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought she had taken my child and run off,\u201d said Lerato.<\/p>\n
The mother\u2019s aunt eventually got into the house and found the nanny in her bedroom, praying on the floor, with her top off. There was allegedly a white substance around her. She had small abrasions and had vomited and defecated.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said they [intruders] had broken into the house. I asked her where the child was and she said they had taken him,\u201d Lerato said.<\/p>\n
The nanny claimed that the attack happened at about 5.30am, just after Lerato and her aunt left for work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked her who the culprits were and whether she had seen them and she said yes. She said she had heard the voice of a neighbour. She opened the door and burglar gate for them. They came in, forced her to drink poison and took off with the child,\u201d Lerato said.<\/p>\n
Sitting on her bed with a small photo frame containing Lihle\u2019s picture and a candle burning next to it, Lerato said she rushed outside, searching for her son to no avail.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called the ambulance for the nanny and the police,\u201d Lerato said.<\/p>\n
Read Also:73-Year-Old Nigerian Nanny Jailed In U.S For Killing Baby<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter attending to her, the paramedics asked the family to bathe the nanny before transporting her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said they could not take her because she had defecated on herself, so they asked us to bathe her. My aunt went to the storeroom to go and get a small tub that we could wash her in,\u201d Lerato said.<\/p>\n
It was there that the horrific discovery of the little boy\u2019s body was made.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy aunt picked up the child, thinking he was still alive and rushed him to the paramedics who were attending to the nanny,\u201d Lerato said.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s father Sihle Tshabalala, tried to resuscitate him with the paramedics but it was too late.<\/p>\n
Sihle, 40, said;<\/p>\n
\u201c I was just holding him, hoping and praying for a miracle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said when he arrived at the family home, he had not bothered to look for the child in the house because of the unfolding drama.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had spent two to three hours outside. I had this hope or belief that I could do something. I tried everything,\u201d said Sihle. \u201cI tried CPR for close to an hour. I was just holding him, hoping and praying for a miracle,\u201d the grieving dad added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe post mortem said there was a fracture around the neck. There was no poison found,\u201d Sihle said, adding that his child had allegedly been strangled.<\/p>\n
Confirming the incident to\u00a0TimesLIVE , Police Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said: \u201cA woman is expected to make a second appearance in court next week following the death of a 20-month-old toddler. She appeared in the Benoni magistrate\u2019s court [on Monday] after a preliminary investigation by the police linked her to the death of the child. She was arrested on Friday, the 18th.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially, the woman had claimed to police that robbers had come into the house and forced her to consume poison as well as the child. The child was found dead while the woman was rushed to hospital. But when police conducted the initial investigation surrounding the death of the child, the woman was found to be a possible suspect,\u201d Peters added.<\/p>\n
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