A 28-year-old black man has been jailed for 18 years by the KwaDukuza Regional Court for the statutory rape of a teenager, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.
He was sentenced on Monday for raping his 14-year-old girlfriend, said Captain Thulani Zwane.
The teenager’s parents had asked him to stop seeing their daughter, but he continued the relationship and had sex with her.
The parents opened a case and he was arrested and charged with statutory rape, said Zwane. – Sapa