A Distraught Pretoria mother woke up yesterday morning to find her baby's cot empty and the 21-year-old Zimbabwean nanny she hired three months ago also missing.
Mita Morobe, 33, now fears the worst, saying the nanny she hired through an employment agency and shared a bed with could be "capable of anything if she had the guts to take away a six-month-old baby from his mother".
Morobe, a nursing teacher at Thuto Bophelo Nursing Academy in the Pretoria CBD, found the two missing when she woke up.
"When I woke up she was not in bed and I went to the cot and my baby was not there. I did not suspect anything until I went to my handbag to find that my house keys, purse with R5000 cash and my cellphone missing.
"This is when I realised that she had stolen my baby and I screamed, banging the door to attract the attention of my neighbours," she said.
According to Morobe, who lives with her younger sister, Ita Dawutola, at the Morganhoff Golf Estate in the Hestia Park suburb in Pretoria North, the nanny locked them inside the house and they were only let out by a caretaker.
Moments later, Dawutola, who was on her way to buy airtime to call the police, received an SMS from the nanny demanding R45000 for the safe return of Kgosientsile and that they should not call the police.
A hysterical Morobe called Talk Radio 702 and police were immediately involved.
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