MIND OF A BABY SNATCHER

Guru provides insight to case of Mitchells Plain tot nabber

- BY GENEVIEVE SERRA

"THE baby is not seen as a person, but as a solution - something to fill a psychological void.

This is the weigh-in of TEARS general manager of operations, Celeste Louw, as recent headlines centred around the kidnapping of nine-day-old baby Mogamat Imaad Sharmar in Cape Town last week.

And while the baba was returned to his mother unharmed two days later, the subsequent court case has the Cape community captivated.

Sameemah Jacobs of Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain made her first appearance at the Bellville Magistrates Court last Thursday where she is facing charges of kidnapping and defeating administrative justice and is expected back in court on 10 July for bail information.

In two recent cases at Gauteng hospitals, newborns were abducted and in both cases the babies were safely recovered thanks to CCTV surveillance and security measures.