HIV-jab: Case postponed
2005-06-24 14:47
Bushbuckridge - The trial of a nurse accused of injecting her stepson with HIV-contaminated blood was postponed for expert testimony by the Mhala regional court on Friday, Limpopo police said.
Captain Moatshe Ngoepe said the trial would continue on September 22 when experts - who had concluded their investigation - would give evidence.
The nurse from Matikwane Hospital near Bushbuckridge was arrested on January 17 2004, after the now six-year-old boy told his biological mother she had injected him three months previously.
The first time the mother took her son to the doctor, he tested HIV-negative. However, three months later he was tested again, and the result was positive, Ngoepe said.
She was released on R1 500 bail and the case was provisionally withdrawn in November last year due to insufficient evidence, but was reopened after police followed up new leads.
The 33-year-old woman faces a charge of attempted murder.
- SAPA