Resident warns about manipulative mom
According to Sonette, who has fallen prey to this manipulator’s schemes, the woman meets people at a local gambling destination and claims she needs help.
After being fooled on numerous occasions, local resident Sonette Sharp felt the need to warn the residents of Burgershoop and surrounding areas of a woman she believes is a master manipulator.
According to Sonette, who has fallen prey to this manipulator’s schemes, the said woman allegedly meets people inside a local gambling destination and claims she needs help.
“She manipulates people with her four-year-old daughter and tells them she needs food and clothes, among other things, for them to survive,” she explained.
In the beginning, Sonette tried her best to help this fellow mother in need, as she also has two sons of her own.
“I invited her and her daughter over to our house to give them some old clothes of ours. We also had a little chat – mother to mother. However, when she left I discovered that some of my children’s brand new clothes were missing from our laundry basket in the bathroom,” she said.
Sonette didn’t make much of this until she discovered that one of her children’s tablets also went missing with the manipulator’s second visit.
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She subsequently asked around among her friends if anyone knows something about the tablet’s whereabouts, including the ‘manipulator’.
“She told me that she’d ask around in Blikkies if anyone might know something about the tablet. After a while she came back to me and told me that she had found it, but this specific person wants R300 in return,” Sonette said.
Desperate to have her son’s tablet returned, she paid this amount to the woman. After not hearing from the woman for a while, Sonette discovered that she wasn’t the only one who had been duped.
“When I went back to the gambling destination to try and find this woman, I came across no less than two other victims who claim that the same woman had robbed them too, and most probably resold the goods,” she said.
One of these victims allegedly told Sonette this woman asked them whether they wanted to buy a phone. They declined the offer but invited the woman to their home as well. When she left, they discovered that the woman had stolen some things from their bathroom cabinet.
“She goes around telling people how bad her circumstances are and ends up abusing their good intentions,” she said.
“I am just concerned that after abusing so many people’s good hearts, these people will not be willing to help anyone in future, all because of this woman,”
Sonette urges people from the Burgershoop and Krugersdorp West areas to be vigilant about the people they’re helping as a lot of the things they donate can be resold to uphold some bad habits.
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