BY WANDILE TSHUMA
A 22-year-old woman has appeared in court, facing murder charges after the death of her 14-month-old baby boy.
The incident occurred in Lupane on September 6.
According to the state, Patience Gelly Moyo is accused of taking her child outside and throwing him onto a rock surface, resulting in his death.
Lupane magistrate’s court was told that, she then moved the body to a bedroom hut and locked the door.
According to reports , Moyo took her child from the kitchen hut and went outside, where she committed the act.
After realizing the child was dead, she moved the body to the bedroom hut and locked the door. She then proceeded to the garden, returning home around 11AM to inform her mother-in-law of the child’s death.
A post-mortem examination revealed that the child’s death was caused by assault.
Moyo has been remanded in custody pending police investigations and medical examinations by two doctors in terms of the Mental Health Act.
She is scheduled to appear in court on October 1.