Dad murders 3-year-old son during supervised visitation (Capetown, South Africa)

Supervised visitation is often a joke. And I can't believe that the mother of this child was the one recruited into doing the supervision. How much you want to bet that Daddy had a history of violence against her too?

At any rate, she won't be supervising anymore. Dad JACQUES EDGAR apparently murdered his 3-year-old son with a spear fishing gun during a supervised visitation outing at a botanical gardens. The mother didn't even know the guy had access to a weapon. Somehow, Daddy was able slip by the mom and take off with the child "on a walk" and kill him. Why are these killers given access to victims? How much you want to bet that this guy had a long track record, but the courts just ignored it?

Hat tip to Annie.

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Mutilated dad, son found in bushes
August 03 2010 at 07:00AM

By Neil Oelofse
Garden Route Media

Police here are investigating the possibility that a divorced father used a spear fishing gun to murder his three-year-old son and then stabbed himself to death with a knife in a horror outing to the town's botanical gardens at the weekend.

The mutilated bodies of three-year-old Lee Edgar and his father Jacques Edgar, 41, were found in bushes by a George resident walking his dog in the gardens early on Saturday afternoon.

Police said an autopsy was conducted on the bodies yesterday, but the findings would not yet be made public. However, both father and son apparently died from a number of savage wounds. A spear gun, smeared with what appeared to be blood, was found near the boy's body.

"The boy had open wounds in his chest, stomach and back," police said.

The father's body was found 10 metres away, a bloodied knife still in his hand. He had "open wounds in his chest", according to a police statement.

The man lived in George central while his ex-wife and child lived in Denneoord suburb. Both parents were with the child - apparently a condition of the father's visitation rights - on the outing to the botanical gardens on Saturday. Once there the father took his child off on a walk, and that was the last time the mother saw them alive.

She was treated in hospital for shock after she was told about the fate of her child.

The mother was apparently unaware of the presence of a spear gun or any other weapon on the outing to the botanical gardens.

Police are investigating the child's murder and have started an inquest to ascertain the cause of death of the father.