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5-year-old starved, beaten and allegedly murdered by father and girlfriend

JOBURG’S inner city is not the safest place at the best of times. And it proved fatal for a five-year-old, who was allegedly systematically starved, beaten and murdered by his father and his girlfriend.

Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMCA) attended court proceedings in the Johannesburg Regional Court to hear the expert evidence of GP, Dr Efrat Barnes, and described it as nothing other than a “devastation of dependence”.

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