Mom critical after abduction nightmare
6 December 2007, 18:50
An abducted two-month-old baby girl has been reunited with her family after a massive 24-hour police manhunt.
The baby's mother is fighting for her life in KwaZulu-Natal's Port Shepstone Hospital after being attacked by two women and stabbed several times.
During brief moments of consciousness, critically injured Nokubonga Khuzwayo, 18, spoke of the moment when she was stabbed and little Owami was snatched from her.
"I lifted my head to see where my baby was," she told her family in a barely audible whisper. "Then they came back and stabbed me again. I pretended to be dead, until I could crawl away."
Police are now hunting a suspect who allegedly turned up at her boyfriend's home with the baby, claiming it was their child that had been born in mid-November.
The nightmare began on Tuesday afternoon when Khuzwayo took Owami to hospital for a routine check-up.
Two women approached her, saying they would take her to a place where Khuzwayo could buy cheap milk formula. They attacked her and left her for dead, taking the baby.
Khuzwayo's uncle, Elphus Dlamini, said his niece, losing blood and stabbed in the heart, had dragged herself through the thick cane field and crawled to the side of the main road where a passer-by found her.
The baby's mother is fighting for her life in KwaZulu-Natal's Port Shepstone Hospital after being attacked by two women and stabbed several times.
During brief moments of consciousness, critically injured Nokubonga Khuzwayo, 18, spoke of the moment when she was stabbed and little Owami was snatched from her.
"I lifted my head to see where my baby was," she told her family in a barely audible whisper. "Then they came back and stabbed me again. I pretended to be dead, until I could crawl away."
Police are now hunting a suspect who allegedly turned up at her boyfriend's home with the baby, claiming it was their child that had been born in mid-November.
The nightmare began on Tuesday afternoon when Khuzwayo took Owami to hospital for a routine check-up.
Two women approached her, saying they would take her to a place where Khuzwayo could buy cheap milk formula. They attacked her and left her for dead, taking the baby.
Khuzwayo's uncle, Elphus Dlamini, said his niece, losing blood and stabbed in the heart, had dragged herself through the thick cane field and crawled to the side of the main road where a passer-by found her.
- This article was originally published on page 7 of The Cape Argus on December 06, 2007
Johannesburg
