Alleged baby snatcher Sameemah Jacobs placed under house arrest after being granted bail

Jacobs faces charges of kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice for the abduction of a nine-day-old baby a month ago.

Alleged baby snatcher, Sameemah Jacobs, appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on 28 July 2025. Jacobs is charged with kidnapping after allegedly abducting a nine-day-old baby boy from his mother in the Middestad Mall in June. She was granted bail on 28 July 2025. Picture: Carlo Petersen/EWN

CAPE TOWN - Alleged baby snatcher Sameemah Jacobs is expected back in October.

She was released on R4,000 bail.

Jacobs faces charges of kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice for the abduction of a nine-day-old baby a month ago.

She allegedly pretended to be three different women in her plot to abduct the child.

Baby Imaad's mother, Imaan Sharmar, was quickly escorted out of court by her mother on Monday after Sameemah Jacobs was granted R4,000 bail.

Sharmar was in tears after the magistrate ruled in Jacobs' favour, saying her lawyer provided exceptional circumstances when he argued that she had a minor child who needs parental care.

Jacobs, who is now under house arrest, was ordered to stay out of Strandfontein and Mitchells Plain and to report to a designated police station daily.

The accused could be heard wailing while being whisked away from the court building, also by her mother, when she was released from custody.

Jacobs is due back in court on 15 October.