Woman arrested after video of grandmother's abuse goes viral TheMercurySA
In this screen grab, of a video that went viral on social media last week, a woman is seen throwing a bucket of water on her 63-year-old grandmother.Durban - The 31-year-old Pietermaritzburg woman seen abusing her grandmother, in a video that went viral on social media last week, was arrested in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
“She gets angry when she drinks or uses drugs, and humiliates us in front of others. She destroys property or things that we care about,” the niece said.Weziwe Thusi, the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Social Development said social workers investigated the incident on Friday and assisted the grandmother to open a case of emotional abuse and assault."I don't understand what possesses a young person to commit such an act of cruelty against a helpless older person,” said Thusi.
“I am very proud of our ward social worker, who had to work with very little information to trace the gogo.
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