{"id":105405,"date":"2019-11-20T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=105405"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:18:00","slug":"criminal-grabs-boy-open-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/20\/criminal-grabs-boy-open-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal grabs boy through open window"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family, who wish to stay anonymous, shared their ordeal on WhatsApp to warn the community to be extra vigilant, especially women with children passing through the CBD.
\nThe father told the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0that both his wife and three sons were shaken by the event, but luckily they were unharmed.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at the corner of John Magagula- and Cowen Ntuli Street on Saturday at around 15:30.<\/p>\n

Also read: Soundclip: Mother yells “Let go of my child!” after man with knife grabs toddler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The nine-year-old boy was seated next to his mother, when a man distributing pamphlets knocked at her window to give her one.<\/p>\n

While her attention was on the pamphlet distributor, another man came to the nine-year-old\u2019s open window, grabbed him, and tried to pull him from the car, while also attempting to unlock the boy\u2019s door.<\/p>\n

A second man then approached the boy\u2019s two brothers seated in the back.<\/p>\n

The pamphlet distributor alerted the mother about the struggle between her son and the criminal at the passenger side of the car, after which she grabbed her son by the arm and pulled him back with all her might.<\/p>\n

Also read: Seun (9) takel ontvoerder wat tweejarige in Middelburg uit kar gryp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The traffic light turned green and the woman sped off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful that nothing serious happened,\u201d the father said, adding that, \u201cCertain crime circumstances warrant that we fight back. I\u2019m proud of my wife and sons for taking such a brave stand against criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether the men were armed like the criminal that grabbed two-year-old Raygan van Niekerk from his mother\u2019s work bakkie last week.<\/p>\n

When Lizette van Niekerk went after the kidnapper, he threatened to kill her with the large butcher\u2019s knife hidden on his body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the near kidnapping of a two-year-old boy in the CBD last Wednesday, another child was nearly snatched, had it not been for the locked doors of his mother\u2019s car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":73917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[22059,22058,22060,22057,22062,8721,22063,4837,10010,12898,22061,10333],"class_list":["post-105405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-abductions","tag-another-child-grabbed-in-middelburg-cbd","tag-boy-pulled-through-car-window-in-middelburg","tag-child-abduction-incidents-in-middelburg-cbd","tag-child-traffickers-on-the-loose-in-middelburg","tag-child-trafficking","tag-kidnappers-prowling-middelburg-streets","tag-kidnapping","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-second-attempt-of-kidnapping-in-middelburg","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["abductions","another child grabbed in middelburg cbd","boy pulled through car window in middelburg","child abduction incidents in middelburg cbd","child traffickers on the loose in middelburg","child trafficking","kidnappers prowling middelburg streets","kidnapping","local news","middelburg news","second attempt of kidnapping in middelburg","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105405","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}