Parents of 5-year-old pit toilet victim appeals high court ruling

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Judge Gerrit Muller in April dismissed the family’s claim for emotional shock and trauma as well as a claim for R2 million in damages for grief.

in Bloemfontein how the body of a five-year-old boy, Michael Komape, lay in a pool of human faeces for over four hours after he fell into a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo back in 2014.

He told the court that Michael’s body was left in the pit toilet for at least four hours, and when his father sought to take photos of the circumstances surrounding his son’s death, police instructed him to delete the pictures.The SCA also heard that Michael was found with his hand stretched out, which according to his parents, was in a desperate attempt to get help that never came.

Appearing before a full bench of justices in the SCA yesterday, Spoor was accused of prematurely trying to further his clients’ case in an urgent application to link the cases., because what happens in the Komape case will affect a pending high court class action, in which the families of 86 children are seeking compensation for their deaths.

 

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