{"id":73916,"date":"2017-10-18T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73916"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:22:51","slug":"substance-allegedly-used-drug-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/18\/substance-allegedly-used-drug-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Substance allegedly used to drug children"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother warned others to be vigilant when she told of her strange ordeal whilst visiting Pick \u2019n Pay in the Middelburg Mall today.<\/p>\n

She said that an unknown lady approached her child, who was sitting in a trolley.<\/p>\n

The woman wiped her hand over her child\u2019s nose before walking off. A few minutes later the lady returned, this time calmly lifting the child from the trolley whilst the mother was busy with shopping.<\/p>\n

Lees: Man gryp drie-jarige dogtertjie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The mother spotted the woman and ordered her to leave her child alone. The lady casually walked away and disappeared.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I returned home, my helper told me that they wipe a substance on the child\u2019s nose to make them drowsy,\u201d the mother said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kidnapping statistics. Info graphic: ccainsurance.co.za<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2022 In a separate incident a mother left her daughter (10) in the car whilst quickly running into Kanonkop Spar.<\/p>\n

When she returned to her vehicle, she noticed two unknown men interacting with her child. Another woman was standing on the other side of the car.<\/p>\n

Lees: Kind byna in kar geruk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman informed the mother that the two men have been harassing her child since she parked her car, so she decided to stay and watch them.<\/p>\n

When the mother confronted the two men, they claimed that she hit their car with her door when she got out of her vehicle.<\/p>\n

Read: Teacher kidnapped on her way to school<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the mother insists that the car, a maroon BMW, was not there when she arrived.\u00a0 She also could not find any mark or dent on their car.<\/p>\n

Back in her own car, her daughter told her that the men arrived and asked her why she damaged their car.<\/p>\n

Read: Interpreter kidnapped, murdered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When the child denied it, the men insisted and one attempted to grab her through the window.
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Not the first time a substance is mentioned<\/b><\/h3>\n

Two previous victims of crime in the Middelburg Mall have claimed that they were drugged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both victims were female.<\/p>\n

Read: Woman claims she was drugged<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

They both told more or less the same story, of being approached by strange women who kept on touching them and talking to them.<\/p>\n

Both handed over their valuables<\/a> to the women without protesting.
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Two incidents where children were grabbed in Kanonkop<\/b><\/h3>\n

At the Tosca Centre in Kanonkop, two different incidents occurred where strangers attempted to grab children<\/a> from their parents.<\/p>\n

In one incident a man crawled next to a car and attempted to grab a three year-old girl from inside.<\/p>\n

Read: \u2018Devil’s breath\u2019 again?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When he was later arrested he was found in possession of a large hunting knife.<\/p>\n

In a separate incident, a man grabbed a 10 year-old boy and attempted to drag him to a nearby car where another man was waiting.<\/p>\n

Read: Teenagers kidnapped<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The father confronted the man, a crowd formed shielding the man from him. He decided it best to get his child to safety rather than taking on the angry mob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports of incidents where strangers are attempting to take children are on the increase. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73917,"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":[2885,2],"tags":[8321,8320,7341,8319,6112,8316,22008,6109,4837,21966,21989,8318,5711,8317],"class_list":["post-73916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-abduction","tag-best-areas-in-middelburg","tag-child-abduction","tag-crime-in-middelburg","tag-human-trafficking","tag-is-my-child-safe","tag-kanonkop","tag-kidnap","tag-kidnapping","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-mall","tag-tosca-centre","tag-tosca-sentrum","tag-why-do-they-steal-children"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["abduction","best areas in Middelburg","child abduction","crime in Middelburg","human trafficking","is my child safe","Kanonkop","kidnap","kidnapping","middelburg","Middelburg Mall","Tosca Centre","tosca sentrum","why do they steal children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916","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=73916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916\/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=73916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}