Parents Behaving Badly

Lesbian Mom and Partner Convicted of Murdering Son

by admin on November 28th, 2006

Thanks to MCA for providing proof that straight parents don’t have a monopoly on abuse. The Afrikaans word “Vereeniging” means “Association” or “Union”, giving it undertones of solidarity and community. But there was no community for four-year-old Jandre Botha of the town of Vereeniging, which lies in the Gauteng province of South Africa. That’s where his mother, 32-year-old Hanlie Botha, and her then-partner, 33-year-old Thea de Nysschen, beat the poor child until his brain began to die. The pair was sentenced to serve 15 and 20 years, respectively, for the child’s death. According to testimony, de Nysschen beat the child out of jealousy, while Botha stood back and did nothing. The parents maintained that their beloved Jandre had “fallen in the bath”. Hogwash, said a pediatrician, who described the child as looking like he’d emerged from a war zone.

In her verdict, Magistrate Retha Willemse tried to figure out what poor Jandre had “done” to deserve such savagery. What supposed crime did he commit that set the moms off, sending them on a violent tear? Wow, I wish it were that simple. Sometimes, Magistrate, people are pissed off at life itself, and they take their “revenge” out upon whatever innocent targets have the misfortune to stumble across their paths.

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