A mother’s cry: ‘The system failed my children’

A 27-year-old mother of three is decrying the justice system she believes failed her two young daughters, after a relative was freed of charges of sexually assaulting them, by Magistrate Clive Nurse, who dismissed the matters on May 4.

It took seconds before the magistrate’s words sunk in, and the woman said while she fought to compose herself in the courtroom, she broke down as soon as she left its environs.

She cried because she knows her babies were not lying. She cried because she knows the traumatic effect the assaults have had on her girls. She cried because she feels she failed them. She is still crying because she knows justice has been