Midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee shortly before she was sentenced on Thursday.
A midwife has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after her negligent actions led to the deaths and disabilities of several infants.
Clutching a toy bear containing her infant son’s ashes, a mother cried bitterly as Yolande Maritz Fouchee, of Pretoria, was sentenced on Thursday.
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.
