TRAFFIC officer, Girschen Grobbelaar’s standard uniform doubled as a superhero cape when he rescued a teenager from possible repeated rape and death. This was after he stopped a taxi driver for driving without headlights.
Grobbelaar told News24 when he pulled over the minibus at 3am on April 10, he didn’t expect to find a 14-year-old girl, bloody and bruised in the vehicle.
“My shift started at midnight, and three hours in I spotted a taxi driving on Parklands Main Road with its lights off. I pulled him over and the first thing I noticed was that the driver had no shirt on,” he recalled.
“When I approached him, I noticed he was sweating profusely. I asked if he had been drinking and he admitted it,” he said.
When Grobbelaar started to inspect the vehicle, he found the girl at the back.
“She was barely conscious and naked. Her pants had been pulled down to her knees and she had a top draped over her breasts. Her face was bruised and bleeding. I asked him what had happened and he started spinning all sorts of stories,” Grobbelaar said.
“I asked him where he was going and he claimed to be on his way to Dunoon. But he was driving in the opposite direction, towards the beach. I suspect he wanted to dump her” – NEWS24
