Goalie ‘stole’ my child - Cops rescue woman from pastor's house

A Gauteng mother has accused former Moroka Swallows and Nigeria goalkeeper- turned pastor Idah Peterside of stealing her daughter and keeping her at his Kempton Park home against her will.

Suzan Mabelane claims that her 21-year-old daughter started acting strangely since joining Peterside's Christ Ambassador Church last December.

What broke the camel's back was when the young woman dropped out of her third year studies at Ekurhuleni West TVET college.

Peterside, according to Mabelane, accused her and her mother of witchcraft, claiming they tried to introduce the girl to witchcraft practices, an allegation which they both denied.

So intense was the battle between the two that it took police over five months to resolve the dispute between them, with both parties claiming her.

Peterside went as far as deposing an affidavit at the Kempton Park police station appointing himself as the girl's legal guardian, allegedly without the mother's consent.

Sunday World has seen a copy of the affidavit and in it, Peterside wrote that he was staying with Mabelane's daughter Pabalelo.

Mabelane challenged the man of the cloth's claim to her child, alleging that the pastor had hypnotised her daughter and that she no longer wanted anything to do with her family.