Four months after her 13-year-old son drowned at a friend’s pool party at Lions Club, upset mother, Taboka Monosi has told The Voice she does not accept the results of the post mortem the police showed her.
The grieving 34-year-old Monarch resident further accused the boys in blue of not giving her son’s death their full attention.
“Nna ke batla go itse gore ngwanake o jelwe ke eng! (I want to know what ate my son),” demands Monosi, turning to The Voice for help after running out of patience with the police.
Her little boy, Theo Monosi, died on Saturday 4 March, breathing his last in the shallow end (roughly one metre deep) of a pool full of children.
The Standard Seven Monarch Primary student was only discovered when a little girl felt his body with her feet at the bottom of the cloudy water.
According to Monosi, she got the shock of her life when, two months after Theo’s death, she went to the police station to check on the status of her son’s case only to be told the investigations were over.
“When I asked why they closed the case without telling me, they said my child drowned, which I do not believe,” continued the grieving mum.
Although Monosi admits her son couldn’t swim, adding she warned him against getting in the pool when he left for the party, she feels something happened to him to cause him to drown.
“There are so many questions surrounding my son’s death, he was found under water with blood pouring from his nose and foaming at the mouth; if there was no foul play his body could surely have floated. The police failed to question the children and everyone who was at the party. When I questioned them, they instructed me to go ask the children’s parents myself, which was not pleasant!” concludes Monosi.
For his part, Central Station Commander, Mogomotsi Kesupile maintains they did question the children present at the party.
“We interrogated all the kids, and their response was that they were playing a game, competing to see who could hold their breath underwater the longest,” explained Kesupile, adding their investigations showed this was a tragic accident with no hint of foul play.
