A South African mother, named Kuneuwe Shalaba, has been accused of selling her two-year-old daughter to a 'witch doctor'.
On Monday, June 02, she appeared alongside 'shaman' Sebokoana Khounyana, in court, charged with the brutal murd£r of her toddler, who she allegedly sold for £3,100.
The two-year-old schoolgirl vanished outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, in February last year and was never seen again.
A major search effort was launched after Kuneuwe Shalaba, reported her child missing.
At first, Shalaba claimed the deceased child, Kutlwano, was a boy, but later admitted she was a girl.
She claimed the toddler was snatched from her by three kidnappers who sped off in a VW Golf near Johannesburg.
Police deployed a search party and had been searching for the child for 6 months before investigators discovered that just two hours before they received the report, a large amount of money was paid into Shalaba's bank.
Shalaba, had her phone calls analysed by investigators, which led police to a sangoma or 'witch doctor' working out of a nearby taxi rank.
National Police Authority spokesman Lumka Mahanjana said in a statement that when arrested, the sangoma confessed to his part in the disappearance of the girl and led officers to an abandoned mine.
After digging, police discovered a skeleton, which is currently undergoing a post-mortem to determine the exact cause of death and if any of her body parts had been harvested.
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