\u201cEk is lief vir jou, Boetie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hierdie ses woorde was die 16-jarige JP van Ross se laaste woorde aan sy 14-jarige boetie, enkele oomblikke voordat hy gesterf het nadat hy onder \u2019n hoop sand vasgesit en versmoor het.<\/p>\n
JP en sy broer, Sheldon, het Maandag (20 Febraurie) ghoemavye (\u2019n vyeplant waarvan die vrug ge\u00ebet word) gaan pluk en toe op die oop stuk veld in Hexpark gaan sit om dit te nuttig. Volgens die seuns se ma, Nicolet, het hulle gereeld n\u00e1 skool in die omgewing gespeel. <\/p>\n
Die omgewing reg agter Edenskool en die Maranata-Christen-gemeente in Hexpark is ook onlangs geskraap en deur die Breedevallei-munisipaliteit (BVM) opgeknap nadat talle klagtes van onnetheid, rommelstrooiery en gate aangemeld is. Standard <\/i>het ook al talle kere berig oor verkragtings, rooftogte en ander misdade op hierdie stuk grond.<\/p>\n
Die seuns het na bewering in \u2019n oop gat gaan sit. Volgens Nicolet beweer Sheldon hulle het stemme gehoor en die volgende oomblik het \u2019n hoop sand om hul neergestort. Sheldon kon betyds na bo kom, maar JP was onder die sand vasgevang.<\/p>\n
Sheldon het na bewering alles probeer om sy broer uit die sand, wat weens die re\u00ebnval nat geword het, te red.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit was net n\u00e1 7de Laan; <\/i>seker so 19:00 se kant. Wasiem (\u2019n familievriend wat naby woon) het my kom roep en ges\u00ea ek moet saam hospitaal toe gaan; JP het seergekry. Ek was geskok en het nie geweet wat om te doen nie,\u201d verduidelik \u2019n gebroke Nicolet aan Standard<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Nadat hulle by die hospitaal aangekom het, is die gesin dadelik in kennis gestel dat JP reeds oorlede is en niks kon vir hom gedoen word nie. Dit blyk egter sy longe het platgeval weens sy asemnood onder die sand en in die modder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicolet vertel verder Sheldon het gespartel om sy broer te red, maar kon nie daarin slaag nie. <\/p>\n
\u201cSheldon het toe na Wasiem se huis gehardloop om hom te roep, en hulle het hom probeer uitkry. Wasiem het hom uitgekry. Hy was vir \u2019n oomblik nog by en hulle het met hom hospitaal toe gejaag en ons toe later kom haal. Medici by die hospitaal het alles probeer doen om hom te red, maar dit was toe reeds te laat.\u201d <\/p>\n
JP se ma s\u00ea Sheldon is erg getraumatiseer oor die voorval.<\/p>\n
\u201cHy is gebreek en stukkend. Dit is vir my erg dat my kind deur hierdie moes gaan. Dit is vir my aan die ander kant sleg om my kind te moes verloor. Ek sou nooit kon dink dat ek my kind sal moet begrawe nie. Sy begrafnis is nou twee dae voor sy 17de verjaarsdag,\u201d voeg Nicolet by.<\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea Sheldon het vir haar ges\u00ea sy boetie se laaste woorde was dat hy lief is vir hom \u2013 dit terwyl hy besig was om onder die sand te versmoor.<\/p>\n
JP was \u2019n leerder by die Ho\u00ebrskool Esselenpark en die nuus van sy afsterwe is wyd op WhatsApp gedeel. Talle boodskappe van medelye het ingestroom nadat die nuus gedeel is.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy seun was \u2019n tipiese tienerseun. Hy het soms laat uitgebly en dan moes ek hom skel, maar hy was net kind. Hy wou net speel. Hy het altyd in die huis gehelp en sy deel gedoen. Sy boetie en kleinsussie was baie lief vir hom. Vir haar is dit net so erg.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2019n Geregtelike doodsondersoek is deur die Worcester-polisie van stapel gestuur.<\/p>\n
Erna Visagie, die adjunkhoof by Edenskool, vertel aan Standard <\/i>hulle was net so geskok om te verneem van die tragedie net agter die skoolterrein.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns lig leerders gereeld in oor die gevare, maar ons is dankbaar ons skool is omhein. Dit kan met enigeen gebeur. Die grond langs die skool waar dit gebeur het, is onlangs geskraap, hoewel onkruid weer erg begin groei het.\u201d <\/p>\n
Die gebied was \u2019n paar maande gelede nog erg bestrooi met rommel en gekenmerk as \u2019n plek waar veral voetgangers versigtig moet wees.<\/p>\n
Gemeenskapslede meen egter hierdie gate ontstaan weens die feit dat mense sand gaan uitgrawe vir bouprojekte en dan die gate net so agterlaat.<\/p>\n
\n Standard <\/i>het na die BVM oor die voorval uitgereik. Teen druktyd was ons navrae nog onbeantwoord.<\/p>\n
Die gesin vertel dat die BVM en veral die burgemeester, Antoinette Steyn, hulle bystaan om die regte prosedures te volg om \u2019n graf vir JP te kan bespreek.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns is dankbaar daarvoor. Ons kort al die hulp wat ons kan kry. Dit is \u2019n duur storie \u2013 ons het nie polisse nie,\u201d voeg Nicolet by.<\/p>\n
JP word Saterdag 4 Maart begrawe..<\/span> Die gesin verwelkom enige vorm van hulp of skenkings. 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