Staff Reporter
The two-month-old baby boy who was reported to have gone missing at Bloemspruit Clinic in Bloemfontein last week has been reunited with his mother.
The woman who allegedly abducted the baby last Friday is now behind bars after being traced to a house in Phase 6, Bloemspruit.
The suspect, aged 38, will appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate Court on a charge of abduction on Thursday.
Police say the suspect was initially pregnant but somehow lost her unborn baby and was scared to tell the husband, hence she schemed the evil plan.
“She was scared to inform the husband who works out of town and then contemplated adopting a baby but was told that the process is long,” the police said in a statement.
The suspect is said to have gone to the clinic for her scheduled appointment where she met Kgomotso King, 18, who was with her baby, Bokang, and befriended her.
King had gone to the clinic to collect her medication.
“After the mother was told that she can’t enter the clinic with the baby, she (suspect) offered to hold the baby for her, before disappearing with the child,” the police said.
The baby underwent a medical checkup before being reunited with the mother.