The Benoni regional court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man from eTwatwa to life imprisonment for the rape of a five-year-old girl in 2019 .
The Benoni regional court has sentenced a 36-year-old man who raped a five-year-old girl in front of her six-year-old cousin to life imprisonment. Stock photo.The Benoni regional court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man from Etwatwa to life imprisonment for the rape of a five-year-old girl in 2019 .The magistrate also ordered that the man’s name be added to the National Register for Sexual Offenders.
after the mother of the minor offered him a place to stay when he was homeless, National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said.On June 2 2019, when the mother was not at home, the man called the girl and her six-year-old cousin to his shack.‘When the two minors got to the shack, he asked them to lie on top of the bed, but the six-year-old refused and stood at the door. The man then proceeded to undress and rape the five-year-old in the presence of her cousin,” Mahanjana said.
The mother said the man had taken advantage of her kindness as she had taken him in when he was homeless. Magistrate Bettina Pulane Maredi agreed with the state that the man committed a serious offence and found no substantial and compelling circumstances to deviate from the minimum prescribed sentence of life.
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