'Tsotsi' returns stolen-car baby
Johannesburg - A thief has safely returned a seven-week-old baby he found in a car he had stolen, in an incident that could have come straight out of the Oscar-winning movie, Tsotsi.
The man sped off in Olga Botha's car with baby son JP in the backseat on Friday after the mother had got out to open the gate to their home.
Botha alerted the police who reached the thief by phoning the mother's cellphone that was inside her handbag in the car.
"The suspect answered the phone and said he had been waiting for a call so he could say where the baby could be found," police spokesperson Paul Ramaloko told The Star newspaper.
The man told police he would leave the baby at a primary school where his parents later found him, fast asleep in a classroom.
"A thief with half a heart," is how the Bothas described the man.
South Africa bagged an Oscar for best foreign film in March for Tsotsi, the story of a 16-year-old thug who finds a baby in the backseat of a car he has hijacked.
After first taking care of the baby himself and becoming attached to him, he decides to take the baby back to his parents and face the wrath of the law.
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