
According to the video, filmed by area residents, two children, aged four and 10 years, were being starved and chained up naked in a house in Moosa Colony. Neighbours found the children in this condition when they pried opened the gate to check on them, later calling the police.
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According to the police, the children's father had remarried after his first wife left him and their children.
The police further stated that the children's stepmother said she was a domestic worker and tied up the children to ensure they did not wander outside the house when she was away for work.
They claimed to have contacted the children's birth mother, who refused to take them into her care. Following this, the children were returned to their stepmother with a warning against repeating her actions, while her behaviour is to be monitored by neighbours.
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