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The 25-year-old mother of two girls whose bodies were found burned in Pretoria has appeared in court.
The mother of two girls whose bodies were found burned in a Pretoria building appeared in court in connection with the killings.
The girls, ages five and eight, were found in an abandoned building in Atteridgeville on Friday.
Police officers were called in by community members and “upon reaching the scene they made the shocking discovery,” police spokesman Brig. Mathapelo Peters previously told News24.
At the time, no one had come forward to report missing children, Peters said.
“The bodies were burned beyond recognition and, at the time of discovery, the deceased were unknown, with little or no information on the circumstances surrounding their horrific deaths,” he said.
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“A priority investigation was developed … and in about two days the police had valuable information that helped determine that the deceased were brothers, and also led to the arrest,” Peters added.
The 25-year-old woman was arrested at the Stadium Plaza shopping center in Atteridgeville on Sunday.
He appeared in Atteridgeville Magistrates Court on Tuesday. The case was postponed until February 15 and the woman remains in detention.
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