{"id":76762,"date":"2025-09-25T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:07:16","slug":"tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction","title":{"rendered":"Tasila Lungu fakes abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>A 12-YEAR-OLD Juvenile who faked her abduction story on September 14, has been caught in the lie after thorough Police investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman Rae Hamoonga has told TV Yatu in a statement that, on September 14, a report of suspected child trafficking was widely circulated in the media, prompting swift police action to ascertain circumstances under which the assertion may have occured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe said report alleged that a missing female juvenile, aged 12, had been found at a named orphanage in Lusaka West\u2014Mothers Without Borders\u2014where her name was allegedly changed to Tasila Lungu and that blood had been withdrawn from her for unknown purposes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon receipt of this information, officers from the CPU immediately instituted investigations into the matter. The investigations involved interviewing the child, her parents, and orphanage authorities, as well as reviewing the sequence of events that led to her placement at the center,\u201d Hamoonga states.<\/p>\n<p>He says investigations have since revealed that the child fabricated the abduction story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe juvenile fabricated the story of abduction. She claimed to have been forced into a motor vehicle in a busy area but made no attempt to raise alarm, and no physical injuries consistent with abduction were observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe name \u201cTasila Lungu\u201d was never officially adopted but rather given to her informally as a nickname by staff at the orphanage due to a resemblance,\u201d Hamoonga states.<\/p>\n<p>He says blood tests conducted at Mothers without Borders were part of routine medical assessments required for all children admitted into the facility, not for any ulterior motives<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girl gave inconsistent accounts of her circumstances both to her parents and to the orphanage, including falsely presenting herself as an orphan to secure admission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer actions were influenced by a domestic dispute with her mother, which caused her to leave home. From the investigations conducted thus far, there is no evidence to substantiate the allegations of child trafficking or ritual activity as earlier reported,\u201d Hamoonga shares.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. A 12-YEAR-OLD Juvenile who faked her abduction story on September 14, has been caught in the lie after thorough Police investigation into the matter. Police Spokesman Rae Hamoonga has told TV Yatu in a statement that, on September 14, a report of suspected child trafficking was widely circulated in the media, prompting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":76761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2876,233],"class_list":["post-76762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-tasila-lungu","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tasila Lungu fakes abduction - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 12-YEAR-OLD Juvenile who faked her abduction story on September 14, has been caught in the lie after thorough Police i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tasila Lungu fakes abduction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 12-YEAR-OLD Juvenile who faked her abduction story on September 14, has been caught in the lie after thorough Police i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-25T15:47:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-25T16:07:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2025\/09\/sm_1758803915.58901.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tasila Lungu fakes abduction\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-25T15:47:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-25T16:07:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\"},\"wordCount\":340,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2025\/09\/sm_1758803915.58901.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Tasila Lungu\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/tasila-lungu-fakes-abduction\",\"name\":\"Tasila Lungu fakes abduction - 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