The child's throat was slit, but she survived the ordeal
A Katlehong man has been arrested for raping a seven-year-old girl and slitting her throat, Gauteng police said today.
“It is alleged that on 20 November 2011 the suspect broke into his ex-girlfriend’s shack in a squatter camp in Palm Ridge, Eden Park,” Captain Pinky Tsinyane said in a statement.
“The mother was not there when he found her two children asleep.”
He allegedly raped a seven-year-old girl, slit her throat and fled the scene.
The girl was hospitalised and survived.
Since then, the police had been searching for the man who had recently started working at a factory in Wadeville, south of Johannesburg.
“Yesterday they received information that he was back at work, working night shift.
“He was arrested in his rented shack this morning in extension two Katlehong.”
He is expected to appear in the Alberton Magistrate’s Court on charges of rape, attempted murder and house breaking.
- The girl’s 28-year-old mother, who may not be named to protect the child’s identity, has criticised the Eden Park police for taking so long to arrest him.
“He has been walking the streets since he did this,” she said.
She had had to track him down herself so the police could finally arrest him.
She also said the police had yet to fetch the broken mirror from her house.
“There was evidence at the scene I think police could have used, but they never came and now I have moved from that place.”
The mother said the man had threatened to kill her if she reported the matter to the police.
“What if he had killed me and my children like he had promised to? This happened in November... it’s now February. Why were they not arresting him?” she asked.
Both of her children were being cared for by social workers until she could find a safe place to live.
In response, the police's Tsinyane exlpained: “The suspect was hopping from one place to another, running away from the police”.
Cops find man who raped, knifed girlfriend's child
The child's throat was slit, but she survived the ordeal
A Katlehong man has been arrested for raping a seven-year-old girl and slitting her throat, Gauteng police said today.
“It is alleged that on 20 November 2011 the suspect broke into his ex-girlfriend’s shack in a squatter camp in Palm Ridge, Eden Park,” Captain Pinky Tsinyane said in a statement.
“The mother was not there when he found her two children asleep.”
He allegedly raped a seven-year-old girl, slit her throat and fled the scene.
The girl was hospitalised and survived.
Since then, the police had been searching for the man who had recently started working at a factory in Wadeville, south of Johannesburg.
“Yesterday they received information that he was back at work, working night shift.
“He was arrested in his rented shack this morning in extension two Katlehong.”
He is expected to appear in the Alberton Magistrate’s Court on charges of rape, attempted murder and house breaking.
“He has been walking the streets since he did this,” she said.
She had had to track him down herself so the police could finally arrest him.
She also said the police had yet to fetch the broken mirror from her house.
“There was evidence at the scene I think police could have used, but they never came and now I have moved from that place.”
The mother said the man had threatened to kill her if she reported the matter to the police.
“What if he had killed me and my children like he had promised to? This happened in November... it’s now February. Why were they not arresting him?” she asked.
Both of her children were being cared for by social workers until she could find a safe place to live.
In response, the police's Tsinyane exlpained: “The suspect was hopping from one place to another, running away from the police”.
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