JOHANNESBURG – A four-year-old boy trapped
by his seatbelt was dragged to his death behind a
hijacked car in South Africa, leaving his
traumatised mother screaming at the side of the
road, police and media said Monday.
“Mommy help me,” were the last words Chantel
Morris heard from her panicked son Taegrin as he
struggled to free himself before the car sped off
with him hanging helplessly out of the door,
Independent group newspapers reported.
Morris had loaded Taegrin and his eight-year-old
sister into their VW Golf outside their
grandmother’s house in Boksburg east of
Johannesburg on Saturday night when three
hijackers held guns to her head.
“I asked them to let me get my children out, they
could take whatever they wanted, but please let
me have my children. I went to the back to pull
out Taegrin,” Morris said.
Her daughter managed to climb out of the car,
but as Morris tried to free the boy from his
seatbelt his foot became stuck and the hijackers
sped off, ripping him out of her hands.
Morris and witnesses to the hijacking ran after
the car screaming, but it did not stop. It was
later found four kilometres away, with the boy’s
battered body next to it.
Police have offered a reward of 50,000 rand
($5,000) for information leading to the arrest of
the hijackers.
South Africa has some of the world’s highest
rates of violent crime, and carjacking is common.
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