{"id":105133,"date":"2019-11-14T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=105133"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:15:40","slug":"soundclip-mother-yells-let-go-child-man-knife-grabs-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/14\/soundclip-mother-yells-let-go-child-man-knife-grabs-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundclip: Mother yells \u201cLet go of my child!\u201d after man with knife grabs toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">A video of the incident is currently circulating on social media. As not to contribute to possible further trauma for the family, <strong><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">www.mobserver.co.za<\/span><\/b><\/strong> decided not to use the video at this stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">A sound-clip, taken from the video, describes the horrifying moment when the toddler was grabbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Los My Kind! (Let go of my child!) by Middelburg Observer\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F712585288&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">The mother can be heard screaming, \u201cHold on! Here he comes!\u201d before two loud bangs, and someone yelling can be heard. The sound-clip ends with the mother screaming, \u201cLet go of my child!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">The video shows how a mother, who was under the impression that her vehicle\u2019s doors had locked automatically, points out a man in the street to her two children. Moments later the passenger door of her vehicle flies open and a man can be seen grabbing the younger of the two children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">The toddler\u2019s brother jumps out behind him without hesitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">According to information from a voice note by the grandmother, the man with the knife threatened to kill the mother when she tried to follow him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">The matter is currently being investigated by authorities. The family could not be reached for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man armed with a knife managed to grab a toddler out of a vehicle in the Middelburg Central Business District on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":105131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[21925,4837,21924,21966,2252,21915],"class_list":["post-105133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-boy-kidnapped","tag-kidnapping","tag-leave-my-child","tag-middelburg","tag-video","tag-watloo"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["boy kidnapped","kidnapping","leave my child","middelburg","video","watloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}