“There is a girl who was claiming to be from the Daily News
and claimed she had a hamper for my granddaughter. I asked why she would be
bring a hamper for such a young child at 3am.
“My wife advised me not to open for them because she
suspected they were up to no good as a genuine visit to get my granddaughter
would have been during day. She feared they wanted to kidnap the child and
people would in turn accuse or blame us if anything bad happened to the child.
“When I wanted to engage them I discovered they wanted to
be violent. My wife then dragged me inside, locked the door and hid the keys.
That is when this girl, who claimed to be from a newspaper then broke the door.
I got out of the house through then broken down door to find out why they were
even accusing me of stealing the child when her father brought her.
“The father brought the child and said she should at least
get used to my place as well as his home in Kuwadzana and I was grateful to my
son-in-law. Now they accuse me of going to Kuwadzana and kidnapping my
grandchild.
“The heartbreaking part is that she was now asking if her
mother had come to get her…”
But Yolanda told H Metro that :“I have been living with her
for a long time. Even when Moana moved to South Africa she left her with me and
there is all the proof in my phone –she would talk to her on my phone and there
are messages and pictures to that effect.
“My granddaughter enjoys being with me and she is not even
happy being at her father’s. She was with her father because of a funeral. On
my return I told the father that I was back and he should bring the child but
he was now saying he would only bring her when she wanted.
“I found it surprising because when she left me she was
even crying because she did not want to leave me and go with him. I then heard
that she had been taken to Domboshava. Why would he do that? What wrong has the
child committed.
“When I went to Domboshava I found her sleeping by the door
on a single sheet and with no pillow, it really hurt me. This is an innocent
child, they cannot be making her suffer.”
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