Dududu police have arrested and charged a woman (29) with perjury after she reported a false case of child kidnapping last Friday.

“The woman reported to the police that she was on her way to the residence of the father of her five-day-old baby, using a hired vehicle, when they were blocked by another vehicle along the Khakhama main road on Friday evening,” said Colonel Robert Netshiunda, KZN Saps spokesman.

“The woman further claimed that the two suspects instructed her to get out of the car and ordered the driver to drive away.”

Police stated that the woman then told them that the suspects escorted her to the nearby bush where they instructed her to call the father of the child and demanded R5000 – which he owed them.

“She also claimed that the suspects struck her with the butt of a firearm before fleeing with her baby.”

Investigations then revealed that the woman was lying about having a baby and had staged the kidnapping.

“Investigations also uncovered that the woman hatched the plan in order to deceive her boyfriend’s family into believing that she had given birth to his child, thus securing her position as the daughter in-law.”

She appeared in the Sawoti Magistrate’s Court yesterday (March 27) and was remanded in custody. Her next court appearance is on April 6.

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