Young mom reunited with kidnapped baby
Precious Moyo, a 24-year-old mother, was reduced to tears when she was reunited with her month-old baby boy, Bandile, who had been snatched at a clinic in Etwatwa, near Benoni, on the East Rand, last month.
Baby Bandile was returned to Moyo last week after a 19-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the abduction which took place at the Phillip Moyo Clinic on July 28 at about 1pm.
“It was so difficult; it was painful. I didn’t think I would ever see him alive,” Moyo said.
Benoni police spokesperson Lieutenant Nomsa Sekele said Moyo took her newborn baby to the clinic for a checkup and was approached by a woman pretending to be a volunteer at the facility,Benoni City Times reported.
“The woman said the victim must accompany her into the clinic to get pain tablets,” said Sekele.
“She showed the mother where to wait for her. The abductor entered one of the rooms and returned with the tablets, gave them to the victim and showed her another room, telling her she must register there to get tablets regularly.” Sekele added.
While Moyo was in the queue, she started experiencing pain. Sekele said the bogus volunteer offered to hold Bandile and later disappeared with the child.
“I was stressed every day; I thought I would go insane. I was not eating or sleeping, and I had a lot of stress,” Moyo related.
The mother of two said she barely slept the night her child returned home. She would doze off every now and then, only to awake to cast an eye over the baby.
Benoni police communications officer Constable Zunickha Essakjee said the Benoni Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit left no stone unturned to recover the baby.
The woman believed to have abducted the child was detained at Benoni Police Station and appeared in the Benoni Magistrates’ Court yesterday on charges of kidnapping and fraud.
– Caxton News Service
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