The 32-year-old mother from Bonteheuwel in Cape Town made a brief appearance at the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, November 17. The mother was detained in July for allegedly selling naked pictures of her four-year-old daughter on the dark web.
According to reports at the time of the mother’s arrest, agents attached to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), together with Homeland Security, reacted to information that a woman was allegedly selling the photographs and receiving payments via PayPal.They then alerted South African authorities who carried out the arrest.
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Bonteheuwel councillor Angus McKenzie also told Cape {town} etc at the time that the mother has not just hurt her own flesh and blood but has brought huge embarrassment and shame to her family and her community.
“The world must know this not who we are, but sadly individuals, so sick and so tormented lurk everywhere,” McKenzie said.
McKenzie said further that although progress has been made in the case, they are adamant that justice should be met and has urged the Department of Public Prosecution to ensure that the proper charge sheet is brought before the mother so that the matter can be swiftly dealt with in the court.
Meanwhile, the case has been postponed to December 8 for the Department of Public Prosecution to make a decision in which court the trial will be heard.
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