Police say no other person of interest being sought in abduction of CT infant
Kidnapping-accused Shameemah Jacobs made a brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrates Court on Thursday after being arrested for abducting the baby.
Shameemah Jacobs appeared at the Belville Magistrates Court on 3 July 2025 on charges of kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice after allegedly abducting a new born baby. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN
JOHANNESBURG - Police said there is no other person of interest in the kidnapping case related to the abduction of a nine-day-old baby in Bellville.
Kidnapping-accused Shameemah Jacobs made a brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrates Court on Thursday after being arrested for abducting the baby.
The baby boy was allegedly snatched by a woman known to the mother at the Middestad Mall in Bellville on Saturday.
Jacobs was arrested on Monday after being found with the baby in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain.
Imaan Sharmar was at Bellville Magistrates Court on Thursday with her family when alleged kidnapper, Jacobs, made her first appearance.
After speaking to Sharmar's family outside court, it emerged that another woman was allegedly involved in the abduction of the baby on Saturday.
Sharmar's aunt, Kathleen Brevis, said that she witnessed her niece get into a car with her baby on Saturday.
"When I opened, Imaan said it's a white car... And I didn't even know she was at the back of the car... Because they were supposed to be eight girls... But when this car came, I said then it must be a combi, but why a car?"
Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi confirmed there was no other person of interest related to the case.
The matter will be back in court again on 10 July for a possible bail hearing.
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