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02/10/2008 22:59 - (SA)
Sonja van Buul, Beeld
Vanderbijlpark - The young woman whose skull was fractured during a
brutal attack in which her mother died, may never walk again.
"I thought it was a horrible dream that would end soon," Charmaine
Pienaar told her dad Danie.
Her 41-year-old mother Heila was hacked to death.
Charmaine, 18, underwent a nine-hour operation in Vereeniging
Medi-Clinic on Thursday morning to repair the damage to her skull and
nerves.
She said during "the horrible dream" she "just wanted to protect mommy".
For hours she lay helpless next to her murdered mother's body at the
family's scrapyard in Waldrift before Danie, 42, and her brother,
Frikkie, 21, walked in on the horror scene.
"During the attack Charmaine's skull was fractured and both her legs
are now paralysed," said Marius Vosloo of Meyerton, a spokesperson for
the Pienaar family.
Before the operation, the doctors couldn't give the family a guarantee
that Charmaine would be able to walk again, Vosloo said.
"They said it's in God's hands," he added.
Vosloo said Charmaine's cheeckbones were also shattered and her jaw was broken.
"Charmaine said shortly after the attack that the man had attacked
them with an axe, but I think he hit them with a metal bar," Vosloo
told Beeld on Thursday.
"Charmaine said the man had promised my mother he wouldn't harm them
if they gave him money, but he still attacked them," Frikkie said.
He believed it was Tyson, the scrapyard's guard dog, that saved his
sister's life.
"Charmaine apparently rushed to help my mother and when the man
attacked her, Tyson bit him and he ran away."
- Beeld
Source:News24
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2403703,00.html
People who want to help Mr.Vosloo can call (+27)083 311 7030
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