JOHANNESBURG - Two stories making headlines about fathers who have committed the ultimate violation against their children - and the details are sickening.
In the first case 37-year-old Carletonville man, Hugo Ferreira, pleaded guilty to murdering and raping his eight-day-old daughter in 2023.
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The State wants life imprisonment, and a 52-year-old Gqeberha father has been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually abusing his twin daughters, who were eight years old at the time.
The man distributed explicit pictures of them online. This raises questions about how to protect children and what to do when parents themselves are guilty of the most heinous crimes.
Miranda Jordan, the Founding Director of Women and Men against Child Abuse, spoke to eNCA.