After a frantic 24-hour search, the baby who was kidnapped in Wellington has been found.
|||Cape Town - After a frantic 24-hour search, the baby who was kidnapped in Wellington on Wednesday evening has been found.
When two-month-old Jashmea Albertus went missing from her home in the Boland town, her mother, Meagan, suspected that the child’s carer, a 17-year-old girl, was behind the abduction.The Pink Ladies, a local non-governmental organisation which assists the police with missing person cases, identified the girl only by the name Bronwin.
Bronwin had apparently left Albertus’s home indicating she would take the baby to her aunt’s house.
When Albertus went to the aunt’s house later, neither the aunt, Bronwin nor Jashmea were there.
She immediately alerted the police.
Police asked the public to look out for Bronwin who they described as being of light complexion, short, full-figured with curly hair and with blonde streaks in her hair.
Earlier, investigating officer Constable Yolanda Wildschut said the police had been searching in the Wellington area and had had very little to go on when the child had been reported missing by her mother on Wednesday evening .
She said the latest information had placed the girl and child in Delft.
However, on Thursday afternoon police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut said the baby had been found in Wellington.“
She was found in good health and will be reunited with her mother shortly.”
Albertus told the Cape Argus she was relieved her daughter had been found.
The 17-year-old who allegedly took the baby has been charged with kidnapping and will be detained until she is due to appear in court.
Pink Ladies spokeswoman Dessie Rechner thanked the police and online users for helping with the search.
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Cape Argus