A woman from Camps Bay was attacked and stabbed by a street child near Camps Bay beachfront in the early hours of this morning.
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Residents treated the victim on scene and members of a local armed response company provided first aid before she was taken to a nearby medical facility.
She was transported to hospital in stable but serious condition,’ said Bay Response.
The street child fled the scene. However, the armed response company said the young assailant has been identified and Bay Response is ‘closing in’.
This incidents follows hot on the trails of several chain-snatching incidents believed to be perpetrated by street children in the Atlantic Seaboard area.
Speaking on the increased presence of street children in the area, Ward 54 Councillor Nicola Jowell said:
‘I have had and will continue to have engagements with Provincial Social Services about the children in the area and the need to have them off the streets and in places of safety and care. The City’s field workers are also in regular contact and pass on the information about children at risk on the streets here.’
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