Police rescue 18 kids held in Eastern Cape church

Raymond Pani

16 February 2016

Police rescued 18 children who had allegedly been held hostage at a church near Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape on Monday afternoon.

Eastern Cape police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Mzukisi Fatyela, said

“The children stay in the church. We had to forcefully enter the church to recover the children aged between 3 and 13 years.

The children don’t go to school and some don’t even have birth certificates. It’s alleged that they were not allowed outside the gates. When you are staying at that church you don’t leave the church, the Department Social Development had been investigating the church for months.”