Johannesburg - Mystery surrounds the details of what happened during the disappearance of the 10-year-old Moffat View boy who was missing for four days and then found wandering the streets of Alberton on Tuesday morning.
Police officers found the boy in the early hours of Tuesday on the R59. He was clean and healthy and it did not appear as if he had been sleeping out in the cold.
Last Friday, his mother had gone to her bedroom to answer the phone. When she was done, she realised her son was nowhere to be found.
His parents looked for him in Moffat View and neighbouring suburbs but could not find him.
They went to church to ask the congregation to pray for their son’s safe return.
On Thursday, the mother expressed her joy at being reunited with her son.
“I am so happy. My instincts told me to keep praying and my child would come back,” she said.
She said her son was traumatised and that all he could remember was leaving the house around 3pm last Friday to play outside.
Unknown people pulled up next to the boy, called him by name and then bundled him into their car.
“He said he was taken to a double-storey house and was sleeping upstairs. We don’t know whether he must be talking about a block of flats or a double-storey house.
He said he was with a man and a woman and that they abandoned him on the side of the road on Tuesday.
“I think the story in The Star on Monday helped because his abductors must have panicked after they saw it. It does not seem like he has been sleeping on the streets because he was clean.”
The parents said it had looked like he had been given a bath.
The Star