MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The Mossel Bay Regional Court recently sentenced a 52-year-old man to 18 years' direct imprisonment for the rape of his wife's then nine-year-old relative in KwaNonqaba between November 2024 and April 2025.
The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the young survivor (now 11).
According to the court documents, the child would often visit her relative, who lived with the perpetrator in KwaNonqaba. There she would play and receive meals from the two adults.
On 24 November 2024, the girl went to her relative's house again to find the perpetrator there alone. The man told her to sit down and watch some TV, and he would bring her some food. He then proceeded to rape her.
He raped the young girl on multiple occasions over the next few months.
It was late April last year that the child's mother found bloodstains in her daughter's underwear, and upon questioning her, she was told about the rapes.
The mother opened a case against the man at the KwaNonqaba Police Station on 24 April, which was handed over to Sergeant Ntandazo Magoqwana of the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit in Mossel Bay.
The investigating officer on the case was Mossel Bay FCS Unit's Sergeant Ntandazo Magoqwana. Photo: Chelsea Pieterse
The man was arrested two days later. He was denied bail shortly after his arrest and had remained behind bars for the duration of the case.
In addition to the 18 years, the man will also be registered in the National Register for Sex Offenders and in Part B of the National Child Protection Register. He was ruled unsuitable to work with children and unfit to possess a firearm.
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