Woman fakes pregnancy and gets arrested

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is sternly warning those who file a false case. The South African Police Service will not accept the opening of fraudulent charges because it is illegal and punishable by law. A 23-year-old woman was arrested after she filled in a false case. The arrest was made by the Family Violence Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Gqeberha. She allegedly made a fake allegation of kidnapping.

The woman’s fake allegation stated that on Friday, 07 October 2022 at 12:00, her husband dropped her off at the Provincial Hospital in Mount Croix as she was due to deliver her baby. She further alleged that she gave birth and went she went to the nursery later that day to check on her child, but the child was not there. According to her, when she started making a noise at the hospital, she was thrown out by the nurses and the security.

After being thrown out by nurses and the security said she called the police in Mount Road and reported the alleged kidnapping. It was discovered during the course of the investigation that the woman had lied, had never given birth, and was neither pregnant nor the subject of a kidnapping case.

Once the police discovered that the woman had lied they filed a perjury complaint against her on Monday, 10 October 2022. On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, she was detained and charged. She appeared before the Gqeberha magistrate court. The woman, Mrs. Farhaanah Abrahams, was granted R500 bail and released. The case will now be heard on 9 November 2022.

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