It’s not often that a reporter gets to cover two identical, horrific stories in his lifetime.
Sadly this is the second case of a dog found eating a baby’s corpse that I have had to report on in my time at the Daily Voice.
On Thursday, Wallacedene residents rushed to a scene where a dog was found chewing on the leg of a newborn baby.
Resident Richard Chauke says a 12-year-old girl called residents when she saw a dog dragging along a tiny body.
“She saw a dog dragging the body by the leg from a wheelie-bin,” says Richard.
“When we went to the scene, we found the newly-born baby.
“The dog had already fed on the leg. This sick behaviour should come to an end.”
Kraaifontein police spokesman Gerhard Niemand says an inquest docket has been opened and they are invesitigating the cause of the baby’s death.
No arrests have been made.
The grim scene took me back to a rainy morning in Gugulethu at the end of July, 2007.
People in NY 146 were left stunned after a dog was found feeding on the mutilated corpse of Andakhe Mjakula.
The boy’s mom Lungiswa Mjakula was eventually convicted of his murder.
*This article was published in the Daily Voice