By Joanna Lavoie
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — It was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure for a Newmarket man and his two teenage children, a long-awaited trip to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Instead, it became a terrifying ordeal after the man said that he and his family were kidnapped, assaulted, robbed, and threatened with death.
On Dec. 17, Sean Stephens, his 18-year-old daughter Trinity and son Kai, 15, left Canada for a three-week vacation. They arrived in Tanzania and spent several days scaling up and down the mountain before flying to South Africa for a week to visit Stephens’ missionary parents, Heather and Chuck.
On the last day of their trip, Stephens and the kids along with his mother and a vulnerable 12-year-old girl she’d adopted ventured to the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) to visit a children’s home and donate medicine.
After a visit at the orphanage, the group jumped…