Punched, kicked, strangled: a two-year-old’s final days of hell

The final month of two-year-old Michael Moletsane’s life was hell. For weeks he allegedly endured physical assaults from his mother’s boyfriend – kicks, punches, strangulation and, in one terrifying incident, a waterboarding-style torture.

But on January 24 2018, his frail body could take it no longer, and he succumbed to his injuries.

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