A sick South African father has admitted to murdering his one-week-old baby daughter after he violently raped her while her mother was out.
The Pretoria High Court heard how Hugo Ferreira, 37, subjected his baby daughter to vile abuse and rape after she was left alone with him on 8th June 2023.
Maureen Brand, the baby’s mother, had left the girl alone with him to sell clothes and buy nappies.
But upon her return later that day, she found her baby severely injured after being assaulted physically and sexually.
The innocent baby, who was just one week old, was taken to hospital where she died the following day due to head injuries.
Twisted Ferreira said that he wanted to give his daughter ‘something to cry about’, saying in his plea that he was ‘unhappy’ because Brand had left the baby with him and had said she would be back in five minutes.
But when Brand didn’t return, and the baby girl began to cry because she was hungry and needed her nappy changed, Ferreira became angry and unleashed his horrific attack on the infant.
‘I grabbed the baby hard at the back of her neck and hit her buttocks repeatedly’, he said.
‘In the process, I pushed her head against the surface on which I was working.
‘I accept that it was a cruel and gruesome attack, especially on such a young baby. The action was clearly illegal and I did it with intent.’
He then said that he decided to assault her sexually because he had ‘decided to give her something to cry about.’