Kidnapped baby rescue mission
Quick police work saw the six-week-old baby boy rescued from his kidnapper and returned safely home to his distraught mother - and the abductor locked up.
‘LET me try to calm your baby for a minute.’
A ‘kind helper’ offered a mother at the KwaMsane clinic these words before dashing off with the infant.
But quick police work saw the six-week-old baby boy rescued from his kidnapper and returned safely home to his distraught mother – and the abductor locked up.
The mother had brought the child to the clinic for immunisation on Thursday afternoon, where the 28-year-old suspect offered to assist in calming the crying baby.
According to the KwaMsane police, the ‘Good Samaritan’ managed to calm and put the baby to sleep before she vanished.
‘She told the mother she had to look for her sister in another department and left,’ said the police.
Happy to find relief for a few minutes, the mother apparently allowed the suspect to take the boy with her.
As time passed, she soon realised something was wrong and she contacted the KwaMsane police, who quickly leapt into action.
After an overnight search, a community tip-off about the suspect’s whereabouts led the KwaMsane Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offenses Unit (FCS) to the perpetrator’s house at Nkombose Reserve.
There the baby was found unharmed and taken to the clinic for observation. The woman was arrested.
After receiving the all clear from the clinic’s medical staff, the infant was reunited with his overjoyed parents
The suspect will appear at KwaMsane Magistrate Court today (Monday).
This incident happened a day after police arrested another 28-year-old woman for allegedly arranging to sell a 12-year-old boy with albinism to a sangoma in eManguzi.
The boy was found while police were conducting an investigation after the disappearance of a four-year-old albino boy, Maneliswa Ntombela, from uMkhobosa Reserve in eSikhaleni.
KZN Acting Provincial Commissioner Bhekinkosi Langa warned parents not to leave children with strangers or unattended in public places. such as clinics,
He also thanked the community for assisting the police in their investigation by giving information that led to the recovery of the kidnapped baby.
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