Kidnap victim Zephany Nurse asks, 'When does it stop?'

“OH MY word. It is happening to somebody again.”

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

These are the words of Miché Sheldon, also known as Zephany Nurse, who has been following the case of Mogamat Imaad Sharmar’s kidnapping, which, in a chilling twist, has similar hallmarks to her own case.

Just like Sheldon’s mother Celeste Nurse begged her kidnapper on television to return her home in April 1997, so did Imaan Sharmar beg her 9-day-old son’s kidnapper to return him this week.

Sheldon’s kidnapper, Lavonna Solomon, had pretended to be a nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital when she was abducted.

It was 17 years later in 2015 when Solomon was finally nabbed for the abduction and Sheldon was reunited with her parents, Celeste and Morné Nurse.

It had happened when their youngest daughter Cassidy attended the same school as Sheldon, when learners noticed that two girls resembled one another.

DNA tests later revealed Sheldon was, in fact, the Nurses’ long-lost daughter.

During the trial, it was revealed that Solomon had suffered miscarriages and was desperate to have a child of her own and that she wanted the baby so that her partner, Michael, would marry her.