The murder trial against a mother accused of killing her own child has been postponed for a FIFTH time.
The postponement on Wednesday in the Western Cape High Court came as murder accused Abigail Ruiters was set to take the stand.
Ruiters, 30, and her ex-berk, Ameerudien Peters, 26, are on trial for the rape and murder of one-year-old Jeremiah Ruiters in June 2017.
It is alleged Peters raped, beat and then stabbed the tot at their Salamander Square home in Kensington.
Ruiters is charged with murder and child neglect under the Children’s Act.
The couple is facing two more charges of child abuse with regards to Ruiters’ two surviving children.
On Wednesday Peters sat in the dock, dressed in a white T-shirt and green jacket, and tension mounted between the former couple as he attempted to speak to Ruiters but she flat out ignored him.
Jeremiah Ruiters
The couple has a child together, born while Ruiters was incarcerated during her bail application.
State prosecutor, Advocate Maria Marshall, handed up several reports to the court.
“The State will be handing up the bail application proceedings records from the lower court as well as the transcribed records [from the translator] and the hand written version,” Marshall submitted.
Proceedings were then postponed when it emerged court translators are on strike.
A translator, who asked not to be named, said: “We have not been paid yet. They cannot expect us to work but not pay us.”
The trial resumes on Tuesday, 15 October.