A pastor from Diepsloot is being sought by police following the alleged kidnapping of a four-month-old baby in Atteridgeville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pastor\u2019s 24-year-old wife has been arrested and is being questioned by detectives as police work to establish the whereabouts of her husband and the missing infant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police allege that the baby\u2019s mother was lured to a nearby river by the pastor and his wife under the pretext of taking part in a spiritual ritual. She was allegedly raped before her baby was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gauteng police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said detectives have expanded their search to areas where the suspects are believed to be staying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pastor remains at large and is considered a main suspect. Police are investigating allegations of kidnapping and rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All four people linked to the incident are confirmed to be from Diepsloot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The search for the four-month-old baby is continuing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A pastor from Diepsloot is being sought by police following the alleged kidnapping of a four-month-old baby in Atteridgeville. The pastor\u2019s 24-year-old wife has been arrested and is being questioned… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[448,208,26,68,447],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","category-uncategorized","tag-4-months-baby-search","tag-city-of-johannesburg","tag-diepsloot-news","tag-gauteng-community-safety","tag-pastor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}