Fake case of baby kidnapping, woman arrested

South African Police Service

Fake case of baby kidnapping, woman arrested
Fake case of baby kidnapping, woman arrested

Police in Dududu have arrested and charged a 29-year-old woman with perjury after she reported a false case of child kidnapping on Friday, 24 March 2023.

The woman reported to the police that she was on her way to the residence of the father of her 5-days-old baby using a hired vehicle when they were blocked by another vehicle along the Khakhama main road on Friday evening.

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 the nearby bushes 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.

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.

She appeared before the Sawoti Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 27 March 2023 and was remanded in custody.

She will make her next court appearance on 6 April 2023.

SAPS Newsroom

SOURCESouth African Police Service