Action Society to support Cape Town mom whose baby was snatched in mall 'to ensure justice is done'

Civil rights organisation, Action Society, says it will be supporting Imaan Sharmar, whose newborn baby was abducted from a mall in Bellville in June this year.

Kidnapping-accused Sameemah Jacobs made another appearance in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

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

Police found the infant in Tafelsig and returned him to his mother two days after his abduction.

Action Society's Kaylynn Palm said the kidnapping case against Jacobs exposed how vulnerable mothers were being exploited by individuals who used false identities to gain access to their children.

"We will stand with Imaan through every step of this process to ensure that justice is done and that the system does not fail her again."

Jacobs, on Wednesday, told the court she handed her Legal Aid lawyer an affidavit for her bail conditions to be amended for her to go on a religious excursion.

However, Jacobs' lawyerwas absent from proceedings after being involved in a car accident.

The matter was postponed to 21 October for Jacobs' lawyer to submit her request.