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Children rescued from Zimbabwe
Video updated Two Canadian children have been returned to their mother just in time for Christmas.
The four and seven year olds were being kept in Zimbabwe, until Toronto Police managed to help bring them home. This is not an unusual story, but the ending is unusually happy.
Biatra Muzabazi’s children were born in Mississauga and their father went back to Zimbabwe when four year old Shane was still in the womb. The kids had taken trips to visit their father’s family before and were always returned – until this summer, when the family informed Biatra they would not be sending the Shane and his sister Rene back to Canada.
It took four months but Toronto Police managed to work with the Zimbabwean government, RCMP and other international agencies. Then the police liaison committee raised enough money to send Biatra to Zimbabwe – the last key they needed to bring the Canadian children home.
The children had been put in boarding school in Zimbabwe, even Shane who is only four. One holiday weekend nobody came to pick them up, they didn’t speak the language. It was pretty traumatic although the kids are young enough to be resilient.
Video: Lisa Hepfner reports:
