It was a horrible case of danger being in house.
A Pretoria teenager was raped by her sister’s boyfriend in 2021, while she was visiting her sister.
It was the state’s case that the victim had visited her sister in Akasia where she was staying with her boyfriend.
On 1 July 2021, the older sister was not feeling well, the boyfriend and the victim accompanied her to a clinic in Soshanguve. When they got to the clinic the boyfriend and the victim were not allowed inside because of covid restrictions.
While waiting outside the man asked the young girl to walk with him to a nearby veld where he undressed, raped and threaten her not to tell anyone.
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When the sister was done at the clinic, they walked back to her house. When they arrived the young girl then took her all her things and went back home in the same area. When she arrived home, she told her mother what had happened. The mother took her to the police station where they reported the matter.
After investigations by the police, the man was arrested on 3 November 2021 and has been in custody since.
In court, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Instead, he told the court that the sexual intercourse was consensual.
However, the state prosecutor Advocate Thamsanqa Given Twala was able to dispel that testimony and proved that the man indeed raped the girl.
Advocate Twala told the court that rape is a prevalent crime in the country and that the rape of minor children has become a pandemic in our society.
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“The man was trusted by the girl, instead he broke that trust,” the court heard.
He also read into the record the victim impact statement, where the mother of the child stated that the school marks of the victim dropped after the incidents. Therefore, Advocate Twala asked the court not to deviate from imposing the applicable minimum sentence.
When handing down the judgment, Magistrate Pierre Wessels said the future of our country lies in the hands of our children.
“A society that does not care for the children is a dead society as such, it is up to the courts to protect the rights of children,” he said.
The man was sentenced then sentenced to life imprisonment.
