Black male arrested for #hatecrime murder of 3-year-old #Afrikaans coloured child Coburné van Wyk, 3 Reigerpark #Boksburg magistrate's court postponed to 22 Aug:
the pale-skinned child was kidnapped from his parents' shack locatedon the edge of the Ramaphosa squatter camp and taken to Reigerpark. His partially-burnt body was found
on a mine-dump. The SAPS said he died of 'multiple head injuries'.
The unidentified suspect is facing charges of 'sexual assault', torching of a body and murder. He will be in Boksburg court on 22 August to apply for bail.
15 Augustus 2014 17:00 Reported on Afrikaans SABC radio Radio Sonder Grense - http://www.rsg.co.za:
arrested for #hatecrime murder of 3-year-old #Afrikaans coloured child Coburné van Wyk, 3 Reigerpark #Boksburg magistrate's court postponed to 22 Aug:
the pale-skinned child was kidnapped from his parents' shack on the edge of Ramaphosa squatter camp and taken to Reigerpark. His partially-burnt body was found
on a mine-dump. The SAPS said he died of 'multiple head injuries'. The unidentified suspect is facing charges of 'sexual assault', torching of a body and murder.
15 Augustus 2014 17:00 http://www.rsg.co.za:
'The guy who killed my son must also die' - Reiger Park family
South Africa
Monday 11 August 2014 - 7:32am
journalist Lenyaro Sello reports : Cuburne van Wyk (3) was last seen at 4pm on Wednesday afternoon
The family of missing Reiger Park toddler Cuburne Van Wyk wait anxiously for the formal identification of a child's body found partially burnt on a mine-dump near their home.
Officials have been meeting the family of the Reiger Park toddler who disappeared last week. It’s an anxious wait for a Cuburne van Wyk’s Reiger Park family as police conduct DNA tests and a post mortem on a partly burnt child’s body, which was found at mine in the area.
The family believes the body is that of their three-year-old who went missing during the past week, since the victim was wearing the same clothes as their son. Further, a family friend known as Angie, was allegedly able to identify him.
If they don’t bring back the death penalty, then mob justice will do because this will not work every day.
“Angie called us to come look at it but they don’t want us to go look because it was very bad and I am thankful to Angie to let us know about it,” a weeping Lizelle van Wyk, mother of Cuburne said.
"The time police find Cuburne it was by the mine. The police called Angie first to come and look if it is Cuburne or not.” said van Wyk.
The three-year-old went missing from his aunt’s house in Ramaphosa informal settlement, in Reiger Park on Wednesday.
“I went to look for the child with my husband until around 7 o’clock then I asked the neighbor to call the police because it was getting dark and cold. Then I went to the police station and opened the docket, and we went around Ramaphosa looking for him,” said Cuburne’s aunt Nora de Wee.
The emotional De Wee said she doesn’t know how to deal with what has happened to the little boy.
“It hurts me very much that he is gone, it is like my own child. He was a loving person, he was a curious boy and he was hyper active, he was freely spoken and he had just started learning Zulu,” she said.
Cuburne's father Elroy Peterson visited the scene where the body was found. Accompanied by some family members he called for drastic action saying Cuburne was yet another child victim of Reige Park crime.
“I feel that the guy who killed my son must also die or the death penalty must be brought back. If they don’t bring back the death penalty, then mob justice will do because this will not work every day. I am not the only parent that lost a child. The other day someone else lost a child,” he said.
MANHUNT FOR KATLEGO PHOKU - LAST PERSON TO SEE THE LITTLE BOY ALIVE - WHILE SUSPECT'S MOTHER LIVES IN FEAR OF COMMUNITY VENGEANCE:
Police have launched a manhunt for Katlego Phoku, known as "Chicken", who was allegedly the last person seen with the little boy near his home. Officers are mum on details but have said he needs to be questioned in connection with the disappearance of Cuburne.
But as officials try to track him down, his family says they are living in fear.
“It’s painful, we are not safe because they think I am hiding him because they woke me up in the middle of the night looking for him,” said Phoku's mother.
“They said if they don’t find him they are coming after me. I just want him to come home, he must come back and explain what happened whether it’s him or not he must tell everyone,” she added.
-eNCA http://www.enca.com/anger-frustration-reiger-park-childs-body-found
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