Non-Profit Organisation, Women and Men Against Child Abuse, says laws to compel parents to report abuse are needed in the country.
The organisation also believes that parents should be threatened with sanction if they don’t report child abuse.
It has joined South Africans who are calling for the safe return of 6-year-old, Eva Tembo.
Tembo is said to have been kidnapped by her mother’s employer, Carlos Rebelo, almost four months ago.
According to news agency-News24, Rebelo contacted them, and outlined conditions for the return of the child.
He reportedly wants a children’s court decision, which overturned a ruling that had granted her custody of the child set aside, among others.
Rebelo apparently kidnapped the six-year-old after her mother told him that she wanted to visit her home country of Malawi with Eva.
The 72-year-old’s daughter, Susan Kennedy, is among those who are appealing for Eva’s return.
She accuses her father of having abused her when she was young.
Kennedy also revealed that Eva’s mother had told her that she was scared of Rebelo due to his hot temper.
@seensouthafrica Kidnapping: Suspect’s Daughter Speaks #seensouthafrica #iamseen #evatembo #missingchildren #findeva @thesusanakennedy@women_for_change @missingchildren_sa ♬ original sound – Seen South Africa
Social media users are perplexed at how the 72-year-old Rebelo was in the first place ever granted custody of the child.
This is EVA TEMBO,Who was last seen on the 1st of July 2024,With her abductor Carlos in Cape Town,His refusing to bring her back to her Mother Please Lets help this Little Angel 😭💔
Please Retweet until she is foundKabza The EFF Nkululeko Soweto Eastern Cape SASSA Mashaba pic.twitter.com/pRGrA0O9sr
— IG:Joy-Zelda (@joy_zelda) October 10, 2024
A court allowed a man, Carlos Rebelo, to essentially buy a child he has no relation to with school fees money and take her away from her mother who was his employee. That’s the gist of the situation and that is a real thing that happened in the South African legal system.
— Neo (@TheNeoMosala) October 10, 2024
Here you go. pic.twitter.com/Pn4g1o0tSQ
— Bianca van Wyk (@BiancavanWyk16) October 10, 2024
Well, this particular white folk was actually awarded custody of Eva in June 2024 by the Children’s Court – his argument was that he pays her school fees and is her primary caregiver. Her parents fought this and the same court ordered Rebelo to return the child. He then…
— Bianca van Wyk (@BiancavanWyk16) October 10, 2024
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