Mom runs daughter over on way to work
2013-01-06 09:16
Welkom – A Free
State mother is heartbroken after she accidentally killed her 15-month-old
daughter by knocking her over with her car in their driveway on her way to
work.
Marilize
Terblanche, 26, hysterically called her husband George on Wednesday morning
with the words, “George, I drove over my child,” revealed Rapport on Sunday.
Her husband
rushed outside and found their daughter, Erica, lying lifeless in front of his
wife’s car.
“She had no
pulse. I just screamed: ‘No, no, not my child,” a devastated George told on
Saturday.
“Marilize
picked up Erica, sat on the ground, hugged her and just cried,” told Terblanche.
He said following the accident, his
wife and their two other children, Monique, 8, and Ruan, 4, had left their
Welkom home and were currently living with his parents. His wife was refusing to come
home and also said she didn’t want to see her car again.
Terblanche
said his wife cried all day and had been to see a psychologist.
“It was just
an accident, but it changed our lives forever. It is terribly painful for all
of us. All we can do now, is to take every day as it comes. With the Lord’s
mercy and support from friends and family we have been getting through each
day,” he said.
