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 His grandmother blamed evil spirits. During the Easter weekend, she said, he had allegedly experienced visions of a man commanding him to commit evil deeds.

“We prayed for him at the time that he would no longer dream of this evil man. I believe evil spirits led him to do what he did.”  

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BARELY a week after news of the brutal rape of a mentally ill girl shocked the country, an eight-year-old Grade 2 pupil is in hospital after she was raped, throttled and her eye gouged out.

The girl, from the Mvutshini area in Gingindlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, is in a serious condition in hospital following the attack, allegedly by a 15-year-old boy on Monday.

The teenager has been arrested.

Captain Thulani Zwane said the girl could barely walk, but managed to drag herself into the yard of her home before collapsing.

"She was dressed in her school uniform ... she was dishevelled and dirty. She mustered enough strength to inform her grandmother that she had been raped by a known teenager," Zwane said.

"The grandmother had been looking out for her as she was concerned that the child was late home from school."

Zwane said the girl had been walking home from school at about 2.30pm when she was attacked and dragged into the sugarcane field adjacent to her home.

"The suspect attempted to murder her by strangling her with his hands.

"He gouged her left eye out of the socket and tried unsuccessfully to gouge her right eye, which was left swollen and shut.

"She was bleeding profusely from both eyes.

"The suspect also bit her in the neck, raped her and left her lying helplessly on the ground," he said.

The victim was rushed to a nearby clinic and was subsequently transferred to hospital.

Police are also investigating an unconfirmed report that the teen had attacked another pupil at school.

The Witness reports that the teen's grandmother blamed evil spirits.

During the Easter weekend, she said, he had allegedly experienced visions of a man commanding him to commit evil deeds.

“We prayed for him at the time that he would no longer dream of this evil man. I believe evil spirits led him to do what he did.”

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni said: "We have confidence in our courts of law and know the accused will be dealt with appropriately".

Last week, South Africans reacted with horror after a 17-year-old mentally unstable girl from Braamfischerville in Soweto was gang-raped and the act captured on video by the perpetrators. The video has since gone viral, with the National Prosecuting Authority warning that members of society would be prosecuted for possessing and distributing the video.

Several politicians, including Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, visited the teen's family to offer their support.

Eight people have since been arrested. Seven of them appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court yesterday.

"Rape itself is an abhorrent crime, but when accompanied by such gruesome acts of violence, it becomes inhuman," Zwane said.

"Such monstrous acts are totally unacceptable and are condemned in the strongest possible terms.

"The victims are physically, psychologically and emotionally scarred for life, while the perpetrators, if convicted, are free to live their lives normally after serving their prison terms."

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Apr 26, 2012

MommaC

Why not blame god or the price of paprika in Peru? Just about as logical.

Something drastic has to be done to stop this. It is just getting far too out of hand.
Where is our useless (homophobic) minister of all things not healthy and male?
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Apr 26, 2012

DeCock1

What is happening people???
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Apr 26, 2012

lover4life

death penalty for rapists and murderers - This is crazy.
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Apr 26, 2012

CheeseBoy

i'm not a muslim but one thing i love about their religion is that they are merciless to those who are merciless. please lets borrow a few pages from the islamic justice system and start be heading monsters like this. they make a mockery of what it is to be a man and do not deserve to breathe the same air as some of us real men.if we do not implement sharia in Mzansi we are doomed and will read about sick stuff like this everu day. Zuma please stop focusing on aquiring and conquering women in bed and start focusing on protecting them
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Apr 26, 2012

sabza007

This is too traumatic to read, just imagine the paramedics who took this girl to clinic or hospital, this story just boils my heart. Then what, we call this 15 year a teenager??? I am just disgusted,angry and wondering.We really,really,really need death penalty for some crimes in this country.
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Apr 26, 2012

golezwa

am telling you this world is coming to an abrupt end, when all this things happen i always think about my innocent niece back at home, an innocent child who obeys adults very much that she can not say no to an older person when they ask her to do things for them, for example, if someone asks her to go to the shops for them. Lord have mercy on our lady, Morena boloka sechaba sa heso o fedise dintwa le matshwenyeo. Amen.
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Apr 26, 2012

golezwa

correction *Lord have mercy on our LAND*
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Apr 26, 2012

tumzangwana

"The suspect also bi.t her in the ne.ck, rap.ed her and left her lyi.ng helplessly on the ground," he said.
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so not only is he a brut.al rap!st but he is also a vamp!re? thats right magriza, bla.me the dev!l, we are used to people blam.ing this and that for their deeds but never blam.ing themselves. this is some sca.ry stuff right here. this rap!st boy is d!sgusting. a stake should be driven through his hea.rt because he is some vamp!re moes.

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Apr 26, 2012

tumzangwana

@sowetan- you people are just making commenting very difficult.
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Apr 26, 2012

MORNACHIESS

Mazulu yerrrrrrr tis idiots banna !
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