Cape Town – The 2-year-old boy who had to fight for his life after being brutally tortured at his mother’s home in Beaufort West last Thursday has returned home after a weekend in hospital.
Nadia Ferreira, a spokeswoman for George Hospital, where the boy was taken for emergency surgery after his ordeal, said he was deemed well enough to go home with his mother on Monday afternoon.
The toddler arrived at the hospital with serious multiple injuries.
Southern Cape Saps spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie said the mother saw her son slapped, kicked, have his feet burnt with boiling water, have a cement brick repeatedly stamped into his chest and have his own faeces force-fed to him for eight hours while they were held captive.
With regards to potential long-term damage to the child, Ferreira said as far as his health is concerned, he was stable enough to be discharged, but emotionally, it would be harder to determine.
Either way, “it will take some time to fully recover from the ordeal”, she said.
Cheryl Morilly from Lifeline/Childline Western Cape said the emotional trauma could potentially affect the child for life…
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