Midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee shortly before she was sentenced on Thursday.
Clutching a toy bear containing her infant son’s ashes, a mother cried bitterly as Pretoria East midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee was sentenced on Thursday to an effective 23-year prison sentence.
Alysia von Kloeg, whose son Noah was born in April 2019 at Fouchee’s You&Me birthing centre and later died at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, after the sentencing said she had tears of joy and relief.
It was an emotional moment in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, as Judge Papi Mosopa delivered his judgment, with several people in the public gallery clapping their hands as he delivered his verdict.
Fouchee, who mostly during her lengthy trial sat with a slight smile on her face, froze upon hearing her fate, and she stared for several seconds ahead of her before making her way down to the holding cells.
