The case went unreported for 14 years, until 2016, when the victim decided to report it to the police.
A 78-year-old retired police captain was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Sterkspruit Regional Court on Wednesday for raping his then-10-year-old granddaughter more than 18 years ago.
During his trial, it emerged he had travelled home to Ntabemhlophe village in Sterkspruit, Eastern Cape, where he picked up all his grandchildren, including the victim, and drove them to his parents’ home in a bakkie. The victim told her grandmother what had happened, but when she confronted her husband, he denied he had raped his granddaughter.
He contended he had never met her before, or in 2002, and the victim had fabricated evidence against him due to an ongoing family feud.
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