BOY 12 DROWNED IN A BATH OF BOILING WATER BY DOMESTIC STAFF AFTER KILLING HIS FATHER AND RAPING HIS MUM TO DEATH IN SOUTH AFRICA

A 12-yr-old boy was drowned in a bath of boiling water by robbers who raped his mother before killing both his parents in a violent house robbery.  According to Dailymailonline, the three men broke into the family 's home in Wallkerville, Johannesburg, where they assaulted and shot dead Tony Viana,53, and brutally raped and killed his wife Geraldine. 

They then tied up  and gagged the sobbing boy Amaro, and pushed him into a bath of boiling hot water to drown,"because he would be able to identify them".

The family's gardener, Patrick Petrus Radebe 24, their domestic servant's son, Sipho Mbele,21, pleaded guilty to three charges of murder and one charge of rape each, reported Sowetan Live.

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David Motaung,20, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to robbery charges.

They then left the South Africa court and walked back their cells laughing according to Beeld Newspaper.

The family dog was killed by having his stomach cut open.  The men's Lawyer told Vereeniging Reginal Court thaat they had broken into the house to steal and to get revenge for the way they had been treated by 42-yr-old Mrs Viana, their employer.

The court heard that Mr Viana arrived home at the house to be attacked with a golf club and a machete-like "panga" and ordered to open the family's safe.  He was tied up and his wife and son, who arrived shortly after, were tied up i separate rooms.

Mbele then raped Mrs Viana while Radebe helped restrain her by standing on her face before raping her too.  They then shot her with her husband's gun before shooting him in the head too, reported praag.org.

The accused admitted they then realised Amaro would recongnise them and gagged him because he was crying. " We forced him into the bath face down, knowing that he would drown."  According to Beeld, Mbele and Radebe admitted guilt on charges of burglary with the intent to steal, robbery with aggravating circumstances, the possession of an unlicensed firearm, the illegal possession of ammunition and intentional damage to goods.

From forensic evidence tendered in court, it was clear that the boy was held down in boiling water.  The exact cause of his death has however not yet been determained by state pathologists.  The boy's hands and feet were tied. The men will be sentenced on September 6