'Baby snatcher' out on bail

-BELLVILE COURT GRANTS IR4 000 BAIL TO ALLEGED KIDNAPPER OF DAYS-OLD TOT MOGAMAT SHARMAR

- BY GENEVIEVE SERRA

ACCUSED baby snatcher, Sameemah Jacobs, has been granted R4 000 bail by the Bellville Magistrate’s Court.

The verdict on Monday morning left baby Mogamat Imaad Sharmar’s mother, Imaan Sharmar, in tears as she was consoled by her aunt, Jennifer Hendricks.

Jacobs waved to her family in the public gallery after hearing the news that she would be seeing her three children, the youngest a minor aged seven years, for the first time since her arrest on June 30.

She wept, wiping her tears from underneath her pardah as Magistrate Gcobani Ndaleni read his findings.

Gcobani’s judgment hinged on the fact that Jacobs was a first-time offender and that she had minor children.