{"id":215879,"date":"2025-12-06T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-murder-of-toddler-brutal-inhuman-judge-says\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:56:45","slug":"namibia-murder-of-toddler-brutal-inhuman-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-murder-of-toddler-brutal-inhuman-judge-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Murder of Toddler &#8216;Brutal, Inhuman&#8217;, Judge Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8220;Brutal and inhuman, and for no reason at all.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">This was the description judge Claudia Claasen gave in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday of the murder of a two-year-old boy who was killed by his father at Otavi two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Claasen said this during the sentencing of Thomas Muronga (30), who admitted guilt on a charge of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, and counts of assault by threat and assault on a member of the Namibian Police two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050680.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brutal and inhuman, and for no reason at all.&#8221; This was the description judge Claudia Claasen gave in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday of the murder of a two-year-old boy who was killed by his father at Otavi two years ago. Claasen said this during the sentencing of Thomas Muronga (30), who admitted guilt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,16354,26758,7511,304,4706,724,257,254,25522],"class_list":["post-215879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutal","tag-inhuman","tag-judge","tag-murder","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toddler"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/215879","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=215879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}