A 13-years-old girl, Nelly Masangu lost her life after her aunt pored
paraffin on her and set her ablaze for allegedly stealing her R500.
According to buzzsouthafrica.com, Nelly Masangu was rushed to a hospital but
died a few days later from the third-degree burn wounds she sustained. When her aunt, Anna Mahlangu appeared before the Pretoria High Court for the
first time to answer to a murder charge, she pleaded not guilty, saying she
never planned to kill her niece. Anna Mahlangu’s explanation to the court was that she only wanted
to teach her niece a lesson for stealing her money. She said she has been traumatized by the death of her niece since her
initial plan was only to scare Nelly Masangu from stealing again. “I decided to pour paraffin over her and to pretend that I was going to
burn her. I believed that she would never burn because I was going to put out
the fire myself. “Unfortunately, she slipped out
of my hands and ran away. As she ran further away, the flames became even more.
I and other tenants poured water at her in an effort to put out the fire. The
fire was eventually put out but unfortunately, she had suffered burns. “I never intended to burn her as I loved her. I had high hopes for her
to one day make something of herself,” she claimed.
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