Proceedings at the Western Cape High Court were postponed on Tuesday after murder accused Abigail Ruiters said she was sick.
Defence attorney Yasmin Rajap requested a postponement from Judge Monde Samela.
“During the adjournment my client told me she is not well. She told me yesterday, too,” Rajap submitted.
“Her stomach is running and she needs to go to the toilet all the time.”
Ruiters, 31, and her ex-berk, Ameerodien Peters, 28, are on trial for the rape and murder of her one-year-old son Jeremiah at their Kensington home in June 2017.
Ruiters is charged with murder and child neglect under the Children’s Act.
Before court was adjourned, State Prosecutor Maria Marshall proceeded with her cross-examination of Peters.
He previously claimed when Jeremiah broke his arm in March 2017, the toddler fell from a nearly 2m high table.
GONE: One-year-old Jeremiah Ruiters
On Tuesday he recanted, stating the table was only 1.1m high.
He demonstrated showing the length from his feet to his navel.
A measurement tape determined the height to be one metre.
“After he fell, he was crying. I gave him sugar water, dressed him in jeans and a jacket and we went to Abby’s work and waited for her. From there we went to Somerset Hospital,” Peters testified.
But Marshall said: “I pulled her [Ruiters] statement and it reads: ‘On Monday, 13 March 2017, at about 6.20pm I arrived at home and picked my child up as normal.
“He had a vest top on and I noticed a mark on his left arm and neck.
“I asked his stepfather [Peters] and my mother what happened to my child and they said my child fell from the table.”
But Peters insisted he took the child to Ruiters’ work: “I went to Abby’s work.”
The trial continues.