Cape Town - Police are hunting a mother who allegedly stabbed her son, 2, and left him for dead.
The attack happened last week Sunday at the family’s Makhaza home.
Family members say they were shocked after discovering Julia Aaron, 28, had allegedly stabbed her son Anele three times in the neck with a knife.
Aaron from 41 Block in Makhaza had allegedly come from church on Sunday morning and walked into her aunty’s house, where she had been staying for the past two years.
The mother of two allegedly went straight to the room where her little boy had been sleeping.
Her uncle, Enock Makendlana, who was watching TV, heard the toddler crying and went to check up on him.
When he got to the room, he allegedly caught his niece, her hands bloody, stabbing her son in the neck.
“If my father didn’t come in when he did, that baby would have been dead today,” Aaron’s cousin Buyiswa Makendlana says.
Buyiswa, 31, says they have no idea why Aaron would kill her youngest child. She also has an eight-year-old son.
She says Aaron ran away after the incident and hasn’t been seen since.
“We don’t know what to say, cause we really don’t know what’s going on. She has used drugs [tik] in the past, but came to stay here with us after she stopped.”
“There must be a story behind the stabbing, but she is the only one that knows why it happened,” Buyiswa says.
She said the child’s father lived in Worcester, and saw him “now and again”.
Anele was rushed to Khayelitsha Hospital and was in a stable condition on Sunday.
Aaron’s older son is staying with the Makendlanas.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut, confirmed: “A case of attempted murder was opened for investigation after a two-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed on the neck by his biological mother.
“The suspect, a 28-year-old female is sought by police as she is still on the run,” he says.
* Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the suspect is asked to contact Khayelitsha FCS at 021 360 2300.