DA urges SAPS to ensure full accountability against officials who turned away family wanting to report their autistic child missing
14 May 2018
Today the DA visited the Mamelodi Police Station following reports that the police initially refused to open a missing persons case for the family of a ten-year-old autistic girl, Katlego “Katli” Joja who was later found dead in a river.
The DA sends our heartfelt condolences to the Joja family who had to bury their young ‘Katli’ at the weekend.
The DA conducted an oversight visit to the police station to get to the bottom as to why the police allegedly turned away a family of an autistic child with the excuse that they “have to wait 48 hours”.
The police cannot turn anyone who wishes to report a missing person away, let alone the distressed family of a missing special needs child.