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Missing Montclair girl found bruised and battered
“I WILL never forget this,” said a grief-stricken Montclair mother, who’s daughter was kidnapped, raped and left in some bushes in Solomon Mahlangu Drive (Edwin Swales).
The mother, who can’t be named to protect the identity of her daughter, said when she arrived home on Monday, 10 March the six-year-old was not home. She initially thought she was running late. Shortly thereafter she was told her daughter was seen walking up Blamey Road, yet she had not arrived home. She started looking for her at a friend’s house. When she was not found, they intensified the search. They searched in nearby bushes and that was unsuccessful, the family reported the girl missing at Montclair police station.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning the missing girl was found by Transnet workers at Solomon Mahlangu Drive (Edwin Swales). “When we arrived at the police station she was wrapped in a blanket. Her face was swollen and bruised. I was relieved when I saw her alive, but I don’t understand why she was kicked and punched. It’s as if they were fighting with a grown man, but she’s only six-years-old and can’t fight with anyone. They tried to kill her but they couldn’t. She told me they tried to burn her,” said the anguished mother. She told the Sun there were two men involved in the incident.
The six-year-old girl was gagged, tied-up, beaten and sexually assaulted.
The mother of four said her children and family are traumatised by the incident. “When I told my family what happened, they cried. I didn’t know the world was this cruel. When I visit my daughter in hospital, she hardly talks. She’s not the same lively person she used to be. Every time she walks past the place where they took her, she will remember the pain she went through. We may have to move.”
The distraught mother appeals to the community to help catch the perpetrators. Anyone who saw a small framed, light-skinned African girl with dreadlocked hair, getting into a truck or sitting in the passengers seat, in Clairwood should call detective W/O Solomons of Brighton Beach Family Violence and Sexual Offences Unit
(FCS) on 084-912-8179
The family thanks Montclair and Brighton Beach SAP for their efforts is finding the girl.
Brighton Beach SAP’s communication officer, Cpt Louise Le Roux said: “I urge parents to instruct their children not to deviate from the transport arrangements that have been put in place for them when travelling to and from school. Also train your children not to talk to strangers and to reject novelties, money, food and drinks offered. Also instruct your children under no circumstances are they to take lifts from a strangers, be it a man or a woman.”
