Police spokesperson Brig Selvy Mohlala told TimesLIVE on Monday that before coming across the picture, the teenage girl had no idea how, years before she was born, her mother had suffered a tragic loss when her baby was stolen hours after she was born. “It was this teenage girl’s curiosity that led to police solving the case,” said Mohlala.
Armed with the picture they had taken off Facebook, the mother headed to the police station where she had opened the case 20 years ago and police quickly traced the woman from Facebook. Mohlala explained that the now 36-year-old woman was just 16 when her baby was stolen. Her baby was less than a day old.
“After a little while, the woman took the baby, promised to return and went in the direction of the aunt. The aunt returned but the woman never did.”Until the breakthrough that happened on November 29, police had had no strong leads on the disappearance of the child.
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