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Traumatised ouma can’t sleep or eat, lives in fear after hospital ordeal

26 June 2019 - 06:52 By Suthentira Govender
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Pensioner Martha Marais was left traumatised after she was tied to a hospital bench.
Pensioner Martha Marais was left traumatised after she was tied to a hospital bench.
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Pensioner Martha Marais continues to relive the day she was tied to a bench and left to lie on a cold floor at Mamelodi Hospital in Gauteng.

Ouma Martha cries constantly, seldom sleeps and lives in fear that her alleged abusers will come after her.

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