A woman who made the headlines across the world after claiming to have given birth to ten babies is now being detained in a psychiatric facility after the claims fell apart.?
According to a report in The Independent, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, was apprehended by police officers at a relative¡¯s house in the northern township of Rabie Ridge, near?Johannesburg.
Sithole, who had stunned the world?with her alleged decuplet?pregnancy,?has since been admitted to Tembisa Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation amid growing speculation over whether the whole thing was just a fabrication.
¡°The medical evaluation has shown that there was no pregnancy. It also shows that there are no physical scars to indicate a recent C-section,¡± a source told the local news site?Eyewitness News.??
Her attorney, Refiloe Mokoena, claimed that she ¡°is now being held against her will,¡± vowing to ¡°move an urgent court order for her to be released.¡±??
¡°She declined that she should be taken to the Tembisa Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation because she felt strongly that she is of sound mind,¡± Mokoena told?Pretoria News.
¡°She then instructed me to accompany her to the Tembisa Hospital. And when we arrived at the hospital, they took her straight to ward 14, the psychiatric ward.?They told me that now she was in their custody, they would not be allowing the lawyers and the team of psychologists that she had requested to be present.¡±
The latest twist in the saga comes just days after the alleged babies¡¯ father ¡°concluded¡± that the children didn¡¯t, in fact, exist.??
As a matter of fact, no photos of the decuplets have been published and local health officials have confirmed that they have no record of them being born at any of the region¡¯s private and public facilities.
Meanwhile, several of Sithole¡¯s relatives have publicly insisted that the birth took place.??
If proven to be true, this would be the first recorded instance of ten babies being born at once, overtaking Halima Cisse, a Malian woman who gave birth to nine children in a Moroccan hospital last month.