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Botswana: Mother Suspected for Missing Child
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Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
17 March 2008
Posted to the web 17 March 2008
Patricia Maganu
Francistown Police are investigating a case in which an eight year old girl went missing on March 4.
Police say though the child is missing they strongly suspect that her mother, who is a Zimbabwean, abducted the child.
Tatitown Station Commander, Assistant Superintendent Alfred Ntiile, says that they have since communicated with the Zimbabwe police to search for the child in Zimbabwe.
"We have communicated all the information to our Zimbabwe counterparts so they can help us find the child," he said. Ntiile said that police also have suspicions that the child's mother has been staying in Botswana and monitoring the child's movement without her father's knowledge.
According to the father, Ntiile said that the child, Kefilwe Mpatane, was born in 2000 to a Zimbabwean mother and a Motswana father.
"When the child was one year old and four months, the mother gave her to the father and went back to Zimbabwe," he said. Ntiile said the police believe that the woman had not seen the child since the day she left him with the father but recent revelations prove otherwise.
"What we were wondering was how the woman managed to recognise the child she had apparently left seven years ago," he said. Allegedly, the woman picked up the child from school on the day in question. Ntiile said that Mpatane's teacher later spotted the child in town with a certain woman who said she was the mother but she would not talk any further with the teacher.
"We suspect that she did not want the teacher to sense her accent. The teacher wanted to invite the 'mother' to the school so they can talk about the child's performance but she would not talk," he said. Ntiile said that the teacher told the police that the child was wearing new clothes when she met them in town.
He said that Mpatane's former teacher told the police that there is a woman who used to come to school whom she thought was Mpatane's mother.
"It seems this woman is staying in Botswana and has been monitoring the child's movement's ever since," he said. Mpatane is a pupil at Aerodrome Primary School. Ntiile said they are doing their own investigations but they also need help from Zimbabwe.
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"We are certain that the child has been taken by a female person but what we do not know is whether this woman is the mother or just another woman," he said.
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