(The Post News)- The deformed stillborn lamb was discovered by villagers after they slaughtered the sheep due to difficulties in giving birth.
Horrified elders at a remote village in Easter Cape are convinced a deformed, stillborn lamb, which resembled a human is a result of shepherds raping sheep. The sheep was slaughtered on Wednesday afternoon.
The locals in Thornhill Village, Queenstown, believed the creature was part human after pictures and videos of the beast began to circulate throughout the village.
The farmer, who is the owner of the sheep, explained that the sheep was pregnant and was struggling to deliver.
They then decided to slaughter the sheep to save the lamb’s life as they tried all means to help the mother deliver.
Subsequently, they discovered a strange-looking creature that resembled a human.
There have been reports of shepherds raping sheep in the village. A few shepherds were caught raping sheep or goats in the. Another shepherd was arrested last year for raping a goat to death.
In the video, circulating on social media, the farmer stated that the stillborn lamb was a result of rape.
“This is Thornhill Village, Mangwanya Rasmeni’s residence. A sheep has given birth to a human-looking lamb. This lamb was born after a coupling between a man and a sheep. I am terrified of men,” she said.
Nolubabalo Xhaka said she believes that the lamb is half-human, half-sheep because there are men in the villages that couple with sheep. “It is difficult to think differently with what we know already because men sleep with sheep here, and this thing resembles a human; anyone can see it,” she said.
A local small-stock farmer, Mvuyisi Masha, who has been farming for more than 15 years, explained that the severely deformed lamb, which at first glance resembles a human, is a common occurrence in sheep.
He said early in pregnancy, the lamb had been infected with Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a fever-causing viral disease common in sheep and cattle-raising areas of eastern and southern Africa.
Masha stated that the virus circulated through the mother’s blood into the uterus and reached the foetus at a very critical stage of development.
As a result, the infected foetus was unable to develop properly and suffered birth defects.
“The deformed lambs exhibit signals of early fetal development that could have been caused by a viral disease, Masha said.”
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