Alleged baby snatcher asks court to relax her bail conditions due to religious excursion

Alleged baby snatcher Sameemah Jacobs, on Wednesday, requested her bail conditions to be amended so that she could go on a religious excursion 

Jacobs is charged with kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice after allegedly posing as three different women in her plot to abduct a nine-day-old baby.

Police returned the child to its mother after the abduction in Middestad Mall in June this year.

Jacobs made a brief appearance in the Belville Magistrates Court.

Jacobs told the court she had handed her legal aid lawyer an affidavit for her bail conditions to be amended.

The alleged baby snatcher told magistrate Collin Jacks she had planned to go on a religious excursion in November this year.

However, Jacobs’ lawyer was absent from proceedings after being involved in a car accident.

"For the one affidavit I submitted was for the court to please amend my bail conditions because I need to go on a religious excursion from the 2 November to 6 November and my bail conditions don't allow me to." 

The State requested a postponement for further investigation and for Jacobs' lawyer to be present to submit her request. 

Collins postponed the matter to 21 October 2025.