Substance allegedly used to drug children
Reports of incidents where strangers are attempting to take children are on the increase.
A mother warned others to be vigilant when she told of her strange ordeal whilst visiting Pick ’n Pay in the Middelburg Mall today.
She said that an unknown lady approached her child, who was sitting in a trolley.
The woman wiped her hand over her child’s nose before walking off. A few minutes later the lady returned, this time calmly lifting the child from the trolley whilst the mother was busy with shopping.
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The mother spotted the woman and ordered her to leave her child alone. The lady casually walked away and disappeared.
“When I returned home, my helper told me that they wipe a substance on the child’s nose to make them drowsy,” the mother said.
• In a separate incident a mother left her daughter (10) in the car whilst quickly running into Kanonkop Spar.
When she returned to her vehicle, she noticed two unknown men interacting with her child. Another woman was standing on the other side of the car.
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The woman informed the mother that the two men have been harassing her child since she parked her car, so she decided to stay and watch them.
When the mother confronted the two men, they claimed that she hit their car with her door when she got out of her vehicle.
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But the mother insists that the car, a maroon BMW, was not there when she arrived. She also could not find any mark or dent on their car.
Back in her own car, her daughter told her that the men arrived and asked her why she damaged their car.
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When the child denied it, the men insisted and one attempted to grab her through the window.
Not the first time a substance is mentioned
Two previous victims of crime in the Middelburg Mall have claimed that they were drugged.
Both victims were female.
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They both told more or less the same story, of being approached by strange women who kept on touching them and talking to them.
Both handed over their valuables to the women without protesting.
Two incidents where children were grabbed in Kanonkop
At the Tosca Centre in Kanonkop, two different incidents occurred where strangers attempted to grab children from their parents.
In one incident a man crawled next to a car and attempted to grab a three year-old girl from inside.
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When he was later arrested he was found in possession of a large hunting knife.
In a separate incident, a man grabbed a 10 year-old boy and attempted to drag him to a nearby car where another man was waiting.
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The father confronted the man, a crowd formed shielding the man from him. He decided it best to get his child to safety rather than taking on the angry mob.
