Giant rats eat 3-month-old baby alive after mum left her alone on drinking binge

A three-month-old baby girl has been eaten alive by giant rats after her mother left her at home alone to go partying with new boyfriend. The child was devoured by rodents as she lay on a bed - and neighbours have called for her mother to 'rot in jail'. Her 26-year-old mother, who has been arrested for child neglect, returned home to discover the horrific scene in the township area of Katlehong in Johannesburg. Thankfully the girl's twin brother, named Lucky, was spared a similar painful death, as he was taken out with his parent on the all-night drinking binge. Describing the horror scene, a neighbour said: 'The baby could only have died a painful death. The infant’s tongue, eyes and fingers had all been eaten.
'Besides the missing body parts, the remains of her body had bites and wounds all over that were inflicted by the sharp teeth of the rats. This woman must rot in jail.
'She does not deserve to be a mother.'
Noluthando Mtshali, daughter of the mother's landlady, said: 'The only thing this woman likes is going out partying in the local shebeens. 'Witnesses said it was not the first time she had left the twins on their own but it was the first time she had left only one child.'
And she continued: 'When people were asking where the other child was, she would say it was in her sister’s care. 'She came back in the early hours of the morning with a new boyfriend and they tried to break into the shack since she had lost the key and they found the baby girl dead.
Captain Mega Ndobe, from Katlehong police confirmed that the mother had been arrested, and said she had apparently gone drinking.
She said: 'I can confirm the little girl died after being eaten by rats. The mother has been arrested and is facing charges of child negligence and the case will be heard in court next year.'