A large contingent of Sea Vista residents attended the funeral of 6 year-old Decan Anoster whose body was found lying in the bushes in Sea Vista at the end of February.
The mood was sombre with adults dressed up and children in school uniforms chanting as they walked to the Sea Vista church for the service.
Decan’s body was found at around 3 am on 26 February with a single stab wound to the neck purportedly inflicted during a fight with a group of boys .
An 11 year-old held for questioning in connection with the death appeared briefly in the Humansdorp magistrates’ court at the end of February. Police said he was then taken to a place of safety in Port Elizabeth and will appear in court on 27 March.
No other details of the murder have been revealed by police as they say they do not want to jeopardise the case.
The body was found in the bushes above Assisi Drive by a Sea Vista resident, said to have been on his way to work. Warrant Officer, Basil Seekoei, of SAP Uitenhage said the name of the finder of the body cannot be revealed at this stage. The results of the post mortem have not been revealed but preliminary investigation indicate no physical abuse or sexual assault, Seekoei said.
About 50 angry Sea Vista women toyi- toyi-ed outsie the St Francis Bay police station a few hours after the find of Decan’s body. They said they were angry as they believe not enough was done to find the missing boy. “No members of the community were informed – we would have searched for him ourselves if we had known he was missing,” they said.
“Also why did they not let all the security companies know as they would have sent their personnel to look for the boy whose body was found six hours after he was reported missing!” These sentiments of the Sea Vista women have been echoed by horrified residents of St Francis Bay itself who have expressed their outrage in comments on FB today.
Seekoei said in a statement that the SAP “alerted all surrounding police stations, security companies and also visited the last address that the boy was found at last week. “ But the owners of one of the main security companies in St Francis said they were not alerted.
“We have had enough of abuse against women and children!” the women chanted in the road. “We demand to know who found the boy and what he was doing in the bushes at 3 am, “women angrily chanted.
Meanwhile a relative told St Francis Chronicle that the boy did not attend school the day before he was murdered. He was seen at a creche in Elf Street at about 2 pm. At about 3 pm he and a friend were seen going to the beach. That was the last anyone saw of him. His grandmother became anxious when he had not returned by late evening and then reported the incident to the police station at 9 pm.
It was reported in The Herald that a group of six children were with Decan when he died and all ran home without notifying anyone of the murder. It was only when they were all questioned by the SAP that they allegedly spoke about an alleged stabbing and a fight. Questions have been raised as to what seven children were doing in the bush at 3 am and why the parents of the other boys did not report their children as also missing from home on that night?
A priest says there is a huge alcohol abuse problem and lots of parents are too drunk at night to notice where their children are.
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