{"id":12710,"date":"2025-10-08T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/five-month-old-sa-baby-allegedly-beaten-to-death-by-father\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:57","slug":"five-month-old-sa-baby-allegedly-beaten-to-death-by-father","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/five-month-old-sa-baby-allegedly-beaten-to-death-by-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-month-old SA baby allegedly beaten to death by father"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police say the body of the infant was found with wounds on the head and face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An 18-year-old suspect has been arrested. SA police say the baby\u2019s body was found inside the house by the child\u2019s mother and police after the woman had gone to the police station to open a domestic violence case against her partner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police Spokesperson, Malesela Ledwaba says the suspect is expected to appear in court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary investigations revealed that the baby had sustained visible injuries to the head and face, suggesting that he was severely assaulted before succumbing to his injuries. Lieutenant-General Hadebe condemned the horrific incident, describing it as a heartbreaking act of violence that no child should ever endure,\u201d Ledwaba said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12711,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12710","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A five-month-old child has been beaten to death, allegedly by his biological father, in the South African (SA) province of Limpopo||A five-month-old child has been beaten to death, allegedly by his biological father, in the South African (SA) province of Limpopo","published_date":"2025-10-08 00:00:00||2025-10-08 00:00:00","news_description":"A five-month-old child has been beaten to death, allegedly by his biological father, in the South African (SA) province of Limpopo||A five-month-old child has been beaten to death, allegedly by his biological father, in the South African (SA) province of Limpopo","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18183,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12710\/revisions\/18183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}