Baby stabbed dead in cold blood
2005-06-15 22:23
Cape Town - Robbers cold-bloodedly stabbed and killed a six-month-old baby girl in Lansdowne on Wednesday after wrenching the crying child out of a domestic worker's grasp.
Jordan Leigh Norton was her mother's first-born child
Jordan's mother, Natasha Norton, and the baby's grandparents, Vernon and Anastasia Norton, were not at home at the time of the robbery.
Grief-stricken Vernon Norton said four men apparently had burst into the house after pretending they had to deliver a parcel.
The parcel was addressed to Vernon Norton, whose teenage son, Dillon, was at home with the baby and a domestic worker.
Police spokesperson Elliot Sinyangana said the men, armed with knives, had tied up Dillon and the domestic worker and locked them in a bathroom in the house.
One of the men had yanked Jordan from the domestic's arms while she was feeding the baby.
Found baby had been stabbed
Norton said Dillon had pleaded with the men not to hurt the baby. After the robbers fled with a locked safe which contained Norton's firearm, Dillon wriggled free.
He found Jordan with a stab wound in her neck, lying on a bed in a bedroom and ran to a neighbour for help.
The woman ran with the baby's body in her arms to a nearby doctor's consulting rooms where it was declared dead.
It seems the robbery was well planned. On Tuesday night, the family received a phone call about the parcel that was to be delivered on Wednesday.
Sinyangana did not want to give details of the contents of the parcel.