A TEENAGE girl who was kidnapped and forced into marriage is now pregnant and HIV-positive!
The 17-year-old from Clarkebury, Ngcobo, near Mthatha was living with her 65-year-old gogo when she was abducted three months ago.
The gogo told Daily Sun: “She didn’t come home from school one day in June. I started making a lot of calls. That was when I found out she was far away in another village.
“When I phoned the family she was said to be with, a child picked up and said my granddaughter was now her brother’s wife. The next morning her uncle and I went to the cops.”
After investigating, the cops tracked down the family. When they arrived at the house a young man ran out and fled. The girl then told the gogo and the cops he had forced himself on her. The girl said the man’s sister was a pupil at a local high school and had invited her to the family’s home.
The gogo said after the girl was rescued she made her phone the man.
“When I asked him whether he had slept with my child, he confidently declared he had slept with her the whole night without using a condom,” said the gogo. After the girl started getting pains and vomiting, the gogo took her to the clinic.
Nurses ran blood tests and found the girl was pregnant and HIV-positive!
Lieutenant-Colonel Mzukisi Fatyela said a warrant of arrest was out for the man and his sister.
“The man will be charged with rape and human trafficking. His sister will be charged with conspiracy on these charges,” said Fatyela.
