{"id":193183,"date":"2025-03-09T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-thaba-tseka-man-convicted-of-killing-3-year-old-son\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T04:57:08","slug":"lesotho-thaba-tseka-man-convicted-of-killing-3-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-thaba-tseka-man-convicted-of-killing-3-year-old-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Thaba-Tseka Man Convicted of Killing 3-Year-Old Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A 41-YEAR-OLD man from Thaba-Tseka has been found guilty of murder after fatally stabbing his 3-year-old son 21 times with a knife on 13 October 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Reli Letuka, of Khohlo-Ntso Bokong on the outskirts of Thaba-Tseka, first appeared before Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He pleaded guilty to the charge of murder, going against the advice of his lawyer, Advocate T\u0161ebeletso Motluli, who had advised him to enter a not guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Advocate Motluli cited his mental condition as the reason for her&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060083.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 41-YEAR-OLD man from Thaba-Tseka has been found guilty of murder after fatally stabbing his 3-year-old son 21 times with a knife on 13 October 2018. Reli Letuka, of Khohlo-Ntso Bokong on the outskirts of Thaba-Tseka, first appeared before Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko on Monday. He pleaded guilty to the charge of murder, going against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[50813,258,256,11361,7805,4717,1407,6867,257,10619,254,41918],"class_list":["post-193183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-3yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicted","tag-killing","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thabatseka"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}