A 26-year old woman was sentenced to 22-years imprisonment for stabbing to death her new born baby with a scissor and burying them in a small pit just because the baby daddy refused to take responsibility. Phindile Sibiya from Belfast in Mpumalanga was sentenced to 22-years in jail by the Mpumalanga High Court yesterday. Detailing the events that took place in March 2020, Sibiya said that a contracted company came to work in Belfast and that is where she met the man who promised her heaven and earth.
EMPTY PROMISES
According to Sibiya, the man promised to marry her if she gave him a chance to love and indeed she gave the man a chance and the following day they got intimate. A few weeks down the line, Sibiya said that she discovered that she was pregnant and tried to inform the man that she was pregnant but he told her to abort the baby as he wanted nothing to do with the child. Sibiya said that the man she thought really loved her, blocked her calls, on WhatsApp even her text messages.
HER MOTHER SAID SHE WOULD DISOWN HER
She told the court that when she was four months pregnant her mother asked her if she was pregnant and she dismissed her. She told the court that her mother made it clear to her that if she was pregnant, she was going to chase her away from her house because she already had two kids with different men. Sibiya said that she tried to go to a local clinic to have an abortion but she was told she was too late.
SHE WENT TO THE LOO TO GIVE BIRTH ON HER OWN
She claimed that she managed to.hide her pregnancy from her mother as time to give birth.On the day she gave birth, Sibiya said that she went to the toilet and pushed three times and gave birth on her own. After she had given birth, she went inside the house and took a scissor, came back to the toilet and stabbed her new born multiple times until the baby was dead.She then dug a small grave and buried the baby but her luck ran out when her mother noticed a lot of blood stains in toilet and alerted the cops. Sibiya said that she confessed to cops that she murdered her new born baby and showed them where she had buried the baby.
