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3:40 CAT | 24 May 2017
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A five-month-old albino baby girl disappeared from her mother’s sight for two hours in Beira, Sofala province, prompting the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM) to assume she had been kidnapped.
The incident happened last Friday (May 19) while the baby’s mother was attending to clients at her stall in an informal market in the Massamba area.
A 22-year-old man named João José, neither friend nor relative of the parents, is in custody in No. 3 Police Station in the Pioneiros neighbourhood in connection with the case.
He maintains that when he passed by, the baby was crying copiously without her mother paying any attention. Supposedly out of pity, he began to play with her and moved her away a little so she would stop crying.
The child’s mother denies this account and accused the young man of kidnapping her daughter when she left her stall for change, leaving the baby in the company of other children.
Sofala police spokesman Daniel Macuácua said that the accused would remain in custody until his intensions were clarified.
In January of this year in Niassa, a seven-year-old boy with albinism was kidnapped by four individuals who broke into the house where he was asleep with his family. On 28 March in the Angónia district of Tete, another boy who was only three years old, also with skin pigmentation problems, was abducted from his mother’s house by persons not yet identified.
No further clarification has been forthcoming since the police announced the two incidents.
Source: A Verdade
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