Father gets double life term for killing 8 day old daughter

A FATHER sat motionless on Thursday as he was sentenced to two life imprisonments for what the court called the barbaric and monstrous killing of his eight-day-old daughter as well as for raping the infant.

- ZELDA VENTER

The reasons Fingerprints gave the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, for murdering and raping his infant daughter was because he was angry with the child's mother, as well as towards his former wife.

The father, while the mother of the murdered child, Lauren Brandt, had left him alone with the crying child while she went off to sell some clothes for money.

In pleading guilty to murder and rape, Ferreira told the court that he wanted to go and see his ex-boyfriend for money for drugs or to sell the baby's clothing for money.

He said after Brandt told him that he had five minutes to remain with the baby, he got angrier and broke up with her, so he left his temper and slapped Brandt, so she left.