The family of missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo have confirmed that the mutilated body of a child found in an open veld on Tuesday is hers.
Bokgabo’s father Irvin Ndlovu told Sowetan on Sunday that the family was called by the forensic team on Saturday to identity the body.
''We went to the mortuary and we managed to identify her. The birthmark on her chest and her missing tooth helped us to identify her,’’ said Ndlovu.‘’We are heartbroken and going through a lot of trauma right now. We did not expect that the body police found on Tuesday would be our child,'' he said. This was after a 63-year-old woman who was sweeping her yard found toes and later discovered a leg buried in a shallow grave.
Ndlovu and Bokgabo's mother Tsholofelo Poo did DNA tests on Wednesday to determine whether the mutilated body was of their daughter.
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