Thu Jun 20 10:09:49 SAST 2013
Thu Jun 20 10:09:49 SAST 2013

10-year-old raped

Aug 16, 2012 | Sapa | 37 comments

An observant Free State woman has helped a 10-year-old girl report her rape and identify the man who raped her, police said.

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Sergeant Martin Xuma said a woman saw the girl walking with difficulty to school on Monday. The woman approached the girl, but she would not talk.

Xuma said the woman took the girl to a clinic where it was established that she had been sexually abused.

The police were called and it was found that the girl was an orphan who stayed with family in Manyatseng, in Ladybrand. She managed to tell her story only when her teacher arrived.

She said she was raped on Saturday night, while she was sleeping. She had been sharing a bed with two boys and a 20 year-old cousin. Her cousin raped her girl while the younger boys were asleep.

Police opened a rape case and arrested the 20-year-old man, who appeared in the Ladybrand Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

The case was postponed to August 23 for a formal bail application.

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Aug 16, 2012

MommaC

Heart broken :(
How much horror can life throw at one innocent little girl?
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Aug 16, 2012

Papage

She must never go back to that house, it is sad what Orphans go through in this Country, many of them are suffering and they feel lonely, I wish I can take her to my house and care for her. People of SA Listen " God will never forgive you for neglecting the Orphans, the weak. the sick and the hungry" Let us please help these kids
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Aug 16, 2012

candilious

My heart bleeds for this girl 10yrs old her life will never be the same again.

@MommaC-Morning indeed how much more
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Aug 16, 2012

golezwa

eish but why South Africans, why??????
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Aug 16, 2012

MommaC

candilious

Morning doll,
Geez, it is stories like this that really get to me. Why isn't more being done for these little ones? They don't deserve to be treated this way.
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Aug 16, 2012

Mfen'iyavova

heartless 20yr old idiot.
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Aug 16, 2012

Mellow

I really feel her pain so heart-breaking you'd think that a 20yr old is old enough to know the pain of losing those close to you and protect her since they are related but he raped her added to her suffering and pain am just too sad honestly

I was listening to Metro Fm last nite about a 5yr old boy that was sodomised by his neighbour, I was in tears and so disgusted when I heard that the perpetrator was released on bail and this is after the court was left in tears by his testimony and still the bustard was granted bail I mean why now? He is scared and fragile when asked if he could recognize the guy, he said yes and that he will run away I mean is this how our kids should grow with sooo much fear haai so sickening Justice system is failing us

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Aug 16, 2012

NeoBaBe

Wish i could take her in.. this is heart breaking, Really guys how much more can that little soul take.. Its is scary, i also wory what would happen to my children when i die.. God bless that woman who approached the girl, cos im sure it was nt a first tym nor the end! Such cruelty!
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Aug 16, 2012

iPhone4

How many times must kids be r a p ed before something is done? This case will drag till I don't know when OMG can the justice system learn to hurry up
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Aug 16, 2012

Jujubaby

Eish yah neh..... We mothers die and leave our kids vulnerable.
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