Family ravaged by crime
January 31 2012 at 04:51pm
GILL GIFFORD
They look out at us, smiling, as they pose for this happy family picture published in The Star almost exactly five years ago.
Yet every member of this family has been traumatised by crime.
And, until today, not one of the family’s attackers has been caught.
Debbi Talmage is in despair. She contacted The Star in 2007, and we ran the family portrait along with details of the trauma each member had experienced as a result of crime.
That was five years ago. Since then, the picture has darkened considerably, with the family having suffered even more attacks.
And the latest happened yesterday when her father Dennis was attacked by three robbers posing as policemen coming to investigate a previous robbery.
The Talmage family – Debbi, husband Kim and daughters Tayla, 14, Jodi, 12, and Demi, 10 – live in a secure estate in Kyalami. Debbi’s parents, Dennis and Sally Polack, live nearby in Glen Austin.
Today Debbi is disheartened and wants to warn others that even the police should be viewed with suspicion.
This is after her father was attacked in his home yesterday by three men in police uniform who gained entry to his house under the pretence that they were doing a follow-up on another crime he had fallen prey to earlier this month.
Read the entire story…………………
