Woman charged for faking child 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.
Police in Dududu have arrested and charged a 29-year-old woman with perjury after she reported a false case of child kidnapping recently.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Colonel Robert Netshiunda, said 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.
Netshiunda added that the woman further claimed that the two suspects instructed her to get out of the car and ordered the driver to drive away.
“She continued to plot her story and told the police that the suspects escorted her to nearby bushes where they instructed her to call the father of the child and demanded R5 000 which he owed them. She also claimed that the suspects struck her with the butt of a firearm before fleeing with her baby. Police investigations revealed that the woman was lying about having a baby and had staged the imaginary 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,” he said.
He added that the woman appeared before the Sawoti Magistrate’s Court on March 27.
Netshiunda said she will make her next court appearance today.
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