13/06/2026
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Breaking the locks on child abuse
To every single person who responded to our call for help â THANK YOU â no questions asked you all just pitched in and for this we are truly grateful. We are honoured to have so many amazing friends who will always support our work. And thenâŚ..there will always be those community members who are the "Jury" waiting to âdiscipline usâ. After a very highly emotional day, I receive the âdiscipline callâ. Exhausted and after shedding some tears for these precious children, I listen and take the abuse, I just do not have the strength at nearly 23h00 to explain myself or argue. âWhat about the poor mother, where is she, no mother will just do that, did the children go to the hospital, who fed them, why were they locked in, why did neighbours not do anything, how did you count the number of days that the children were alone, they are just too clean to be neglectedâŚ.(we cleaned them and dressed them warmly). WellâŚ. Your Honor âI donât know any of these answersâ. Let me explainâŚ.when children are at risk, the aunties at Bobbi Bear go into fight mode, we get a call, we run we do what we need to, we get the children out. We then do the Police statement, get the child to a Government hospital for the District Surgeon to complete the J88 and then finally after hours and hours we bring these highly traumatised and scared children to Bobbi Bear. We run around to see if we have their size clothes, nappies etc. If we donât have we may put a post up asking for help. They are given a nice warm bath, loved and cuddled, fed, sores cleaned and finally when they see they are safe, they fall asleep in our arms and we put them to bed, then into the early hours of the morning we sit down and yes then we get emotional because what we see cannot be unseen. Tomorrow morning we will get hold of the I/O at SAPS and piece together the whyâs whereâs and howâs. We do not do the investigations, the police do - we break the locks and rescue the children. Once again to our lovely supporters THANK YOU for never judging us and for understanding our work.
