Three months after Karema’s disappearance, a distressing and dramatic turn of events has led to the arrest and detention of his stepfather, Lovemore Sithole, in connection with the kidn@pping.
Sithole, a 37-year-old father of three, has allegedly confessed to the police that he sold Tlotso for P200,000. Unfortunately, the boy, who many had hoped would be found alive, has been confirmed de@d, according to reliable sources.
“Those bones from two weeks ago belonged to Tlotso. Some members of his family are implicated in his kidn@pping. Some prominent figures too, but its too early to reveal names,” a source close to the family has alleged.
On Wednesday much to the relief of the Lobatse community, Sithole was questioned and cautioned about possible charges of kidn@pping and detained to help police with the mu_rder investigations.
Water Utilities sewage truck was also spotted at Kesego Karema, Tlotso’s mother’s rented house in Peleng location on the same day of the arrest draining the pit latrine, allegedly to retrieve two cellphones that Sithole had dumped in the toilet, to dispose of evidence.
According to a neighbour who asked for his name to be protected for fear of victimisation, what led to Sithole’s arrest was a disturbing discussion between Sithole and a possible partner in crime that the boy’s mother overheard when Sithole was in the toilet.
“Kesego followed him to the toilet and overheard Sithole talking to someone on the other end about Tlotso. When she confronted him, he grabbed her phone and threw it, together with his in the toilet because she had claimed to have recorded the entire conversation on her phone,”said the neighbour
On Tuesday police investigations had led them to Sithole’s house in Kanye where the clothes he was wearing on the day the child went missing were found in a home he shares with his wife and children.
On April 13 April Kesego had received a text message from an unknown number directing the family to a place along the Kanye/Lobatse road where the anonymous sender claimed that he had seen four suspicious-looking people; two men and two women, driving a Honda fit-off loading something. The following day, police found a cracked human skull and clothes that the little boy was wearing at the same spot.
