“My child, my child is at the back.” These were the only words Alicia Lamprecht could shout in the traumatic moment she was hijacked and the suspect made off with her baby. crime hijacked baby CapeTimesSA
These were the only words Alicia Lamprecht could shout in the traumatic moment she was hijacked and the suspect made off with her 7-month old baby, Henco in the back seat earlier this week.
“I am feeling drained. was a big day for us because it was the first time we had left home, going for a thorough check up with the paediatrician. I had to strap Henco into the car seat but I just couldn’t do it. It was too overwhelming and my husband then had to do it.“It was a very emotional day for me and even as it was the first time we switched on the TV and we saw ourselves on the news, reliving the incident.
A first-time victim of hijacking, Lamprecht said in the moment, all she could do was shout “my child, my child is on the back”. Mere hours after the incident, Henco was found unharmed at an address in Dellville Square, Maitland after a passerby found him in his car seat.“I haven’t given the suspect much thought. Not knowing him makes it much easier not to hate him. I don’t want to hate him. I do, however, want the police to catch him and he must pay for his crime because he has done such a big injustice to my friends and family who have also been traumatised by the incident,” said Lamprecht.
While a suspect was confirmed as “identified” on Monday, no arrests have yet been made, said police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi.Research fellow at UCT’s Centre for Criminology, Simon Howell, said while the incident of Lamprecht was not a traditional hijacking – being accosted by an armed suspect – signs to be alert for in a possible hijacking situation can apply equally.
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