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Missing South Africa child found five years on, with Facebook help
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 08 - 2011


A South African mother found her missing son
after a five-year search, with social-networking site Facebook
helping locate the boy, the Sowetan newspaper reported on Friday, according to dpa.
However, she will still have to wait for a DNA test to confirm her
parentage and for social services to allow her to take the boy home.
The boy, then 3 years old, went missing in August 2006, when the
mother went to visit her dying father in hospital. Children were not
allowed into the intensive care unit, so the youngster stayed with a
cousin in the foyer.
When she returned from staying with her father in his final
moments, her son was missing.
"I was still in shock over my father's death and now my son was
gone," the mother, now 26, told the newspaper.
For five years, her search turned up no leads. But the mother says
she suspected her estranged husband had snatched the boy.
Last week, she was contacted via Facebook to be told her husband
had died. The mother went to an orphanage to see if the young child
was in its care, and found him there.
According to a social development department spokesperson the wait
for the DNA test and confirmation of acceptable living conditions for
the child was a standard procedure for all kidnapping cases.


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