A 17-year-old mom of two has lived to tell the tale after she fought off a man who tried to abduct her.
The teen was being dragged towards a car, where an armed accomplice was waiting, but managed to break free as he tried to drug her.
The traumatised meisie and her 42-year-old mother now want to raise the alarm about the terrifying ordeal which took place on Thursday afternoon in Parkwood.
The girl is the mother of one-year-old twins.
She says on Thursday, while at a tuckshop in Walmer Avenue, she noticed a black BMW with tinted windows near the winkeltjie.
“It was around 2pm when my aunt asked me to go buy a litre of milk,” the teen explains.
“When I came down the road, I noticed a black BMW standing in front of someone’s house and thought they were probably visitors.
“When I arrived at the shop, the owner was not there, but inside the house, so I shouted for her and waited on the stoep next the road.”
She then noticed the BMW moving down the street.
SCENE: Girl was dragged to a car, but escaped in Parkwood Estate. Photo: Jack Lestrade
“The car stopped in front of the shop and a man got out of the driver’s seat and I thought he must be a customer,” says the young woman.
The man suddenly grabbed her and dragged her towards the car, and she fought back. “He was holding onto my arms and shoulders and I began moving around to break free,” she explains.
“I scratched him at one stage and then he bit me on my hand. I was ducking and then he pulled a cloth out of his pocket and wanted to place it over my mouth.
“I inhaled some of it, but I am not sure what it was. It had a strong smell.”
She says the next moment, a male passenger in the car, who was armed, rolled down the window and shouted: “This is a tough one.”
“He was pointing the gun at me and it went through my mind that maybe I must give in because here is a gun now.
“But I thought of my children and, to be honest, I still do not know how I fought this man off.”
She describes her attacker as “tall, thin, black with a scar on his face”.
“When I managed to break free from him, I began to run and I saw them speed off.
“As I ran, I began feeling weak and fell and a boy helped me to my feet.”
The teen’s mother says Grassy Park police officers came to their home twice to check on her daughter, but did not take a statement.
“They said she needs to give the car’s registration number,” the confused ouma says.
“I want people to know what happened here because children often go to the shop alone.
“My child says she doesn’t know how she got away, but I do. That is God. Each day when I leave home, I pray for my child.”
Grassy Park Police Station spokesperson, Captain Wynita Kleinsmith, confirms that they attended to the matter, but that “no case had been registered”.