A CAREGIVER and two children were terrorised in their home near Mayville on Tuesday afternoon.
At around 2pm, four young, well-dressed men armed with pangas, terrorized the woman and the children, a baby girl of five months and a boy of five years, in their home in Charles Henwood Avenue, off South Ridge Road.
Fortunately they failed to get into the apartment.
According to Save Our Berea’s Cheryl Johnson, the men then broke into the empty flat next door through the Trellidor, smashing through louvre windows to get inside.
“Finding nothing to steal, they then went up into the roof through the ceiling trapdoor. As the trapdoor to the next door apartment was locked, they smashed through the ceiling to gain access to my late father’s home.
“As he only died in April, we were still packing up the flat and had most of it ready to move in sealed cardboard boxes. They took the place apart looking for valuables,” she said.
She said the flat was well-secured, with internal locking doors, burglar bars on all windows, a veranda enclosed with bars, security gate to bedrooms and so on.
When they could not get into the main bedroom, they went back outside and smashed a large plate glass window facing the street that had no burglar guard because of its size. They then stole whatever took their fancy and made off with it in broad daylight, most probably back to Cato Crest.
“While everyone on the Berea is facing break-ins, particularly into garages, this invasion is noteworthy and in my view very troubling. Robbers are upping the ante – broad daylight, armed with pangas and worst of all, showed no compassion or regard for two tiny children and their nanny,” she said.
