The women who should have been protecting their 14-year-old niece,
but who instead killed her, were on Friday called “instruments of evil”
in the Durban High Court, where they were sentenced to life
imprisonment.
The image of the educated and churchgoing women
belied the evil intent which they displayed when they disembowelled the
teenager via her private parts in an exorcism to remove what they
thought was a “demon code” located in her intestines.
The women -
Fundiswa Faku, 33, and Lindelwa Jalubane, 41, with Jalubane’s daughters,
Nokubonga, who will turn 22 tomorrow, and Minenhle, 19 - stood in the
dock of the Durban High Court on Friday, their faces covered by jersey
hoods and scarves.
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“The horrific exorcism was performed under the pretext that you were
removing a secret code of a demon from her abdomen. The evidence shows
that all of you acted in common purpose to kill.”
In mitigation of sentence, pyshco-social reports from social workers were presented.
The
reports stated that all four were first-time offenders in good physical
and mental health. Other circumstances of their family life were also
set out. They all attended the same church and were “devout
Christians”.
Evil aunts get life for exorcism killing | IOL
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