Rising numbers of SA kids abused and murdered

Professor Lorna Martin has done autopsies on more than 12000 bodies in her 23 years as a forensic pathologist. She is used to them. However, the bodies of 548 children who passed through her hands from January to December last year are not likely to slip from her memory. Their small frames, which ended up at the Salt River mortuary in Cape Town where she works, have shone a light on the dark facts of why so many South African children die.