A boy who was allegedly kidnapped and chained to a dog kennel in the Eastern Cape was rescued by police at the weekend.A man was expected to appear in the Mdantsane Magistrate's Court on Monday to face charges of kidnapping and assault after a video of a 12-year-old boy chained to a dog kennel went viral.
"We were alerted by members of the community that a boy was chained in a dog kennel at a home in NU8, an area in Mdantsane,” said Cambridge police spokesperson Capt Mluleki Mbi. Mbi said the boy, who lived with his grandmother in the NU1 area, was allegedly kidnapped from the Esplanade in East London before being taken to the house where he was found.
In the video, he can be heard telling community members that he had spent the night in the cage and that the person who took him there had threatened to feed him to his dogs. Mdi said the child had been taken home but the department of social development would look into his living conditions.
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