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Six boys suspended for school gang rape

The two seven-year-old school girls allegedly gang raped by six boys at a school in Vosloorus are receiving counselling and the perpetrators have been suspended.

The attack on the girls took place during school hours at Rebonthseng Primary on Monday.

The Gauteng Education Department says it was only informed of the incident by the local community on Wednesday.

Premier David Makhura and Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi have met with the parents of all the children involved.

The department says it is concerned by the way the incident was handled and is demanding reasons why school safety policy was not followed.

A couple of months ago the MEC dealt with a similar case at a school in Tshwane, and says it is a very concerning issue for the department.

The school governing body has suspended these boys, aged between seven and ten, for five days while they initiate a disciplinary process.

Lesufi has instructed that counselling must also be extended to the parents of all the children due to possibly being traumatised as well.

Source: eNCA

No pics allowed at Mandela grandson hearing

A stern message was issued on Friday morning to the media in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court not to take photos inside or outside the court in the matter of a struggle icon’s grandson’s appearance on charges of rape.

Magistrate Paul du Plessis reminded the media that these are preliminary investigations and ordered that no pictures be taken inside or outside the court for the purpose of identifying the parties.

The magistrate made the order after the family complained.

He said the order was made in terms of Sexual Offences and Related Matters Act 32 of 2007 which prohibits the identification of an accused person before he pleads on charges against him.

The accused made a brief appearance and seemed composed.

After this, prosecutor Komos Mbhele told the magistrate the accused was facing a Schedule 6 offence which means the onus is on him to show exceptional circumstances which would allow him to be released on bail.

A spokesman for the family of the girl said Winnie Madikizela-Mandela tried to derail a complaint.

The spokesman said that Madikizela-Mandela, the late Mandela’s divorced wife, sent her bodyguard to the 15-year-old girl’s home. The spokesman said the bodyguard posed as a policeman but had no badge.

The spokesman, who refused to allow his name to be used by any of the media, said the bodyguard then revealed that he was there on behalf of Madikizela-Mandela.

The spokesman said Madikizela-Mandela promised to ask the provincial police commissioner to handle the case. The family reported the rape when they did not hear from Madikizela-Mandela again.

Madikizela-Mandela’s office has not responded to questions.

Source: The Star

Six held after teen kidnapped and raped

Six men have been arrested in Qwaqwa after they allegedly kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl, Free State police said on Thursday.

Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said the incident took place at Mangaung village in the Maboshoane section on Wednesday evening.

“The girl was at home with her guardian when they heard someone knocking at their door. Her guardian went [to] open the door and six young men stormed into the house,” Mophiring said.

He said the men, aged 20 and 21, allegedly took the girl away against her will to another house in the same section. “She was allegedly raped by four of the six suspects.”

She reported the incident to the police late on Wednesday night.

“The police upon receiving the information acted swiftly and pounced on the suspects at the scene,” said Mophiring.

He said four of the suspects have been charged with rape, and all six face kidnapping charges.

The suspects were expected to appear in the Phuthaditjhaba Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

Teen convicted of raping toddler

A 15-year-old black boy was convicted of the brutal rape of a 3-year-old girl and sentenced to 10 years behind bars in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

The violent rape of the toddler played out in the Thokoza informal settlement near Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in May.

The girl’s mother watched helplessly through the keyhole of a door while she was locked outside as her child was raped.

Police spokesperson Major Thulani Zwane said the woman had heard the scream of her daughter rising from her neighbour’s house.

“She went to check and found that the door was closed and the child was crying inside, she knocked at the door but nobody opened.

“Then she decided to peep through the hole on the door and she saw the accused raping the child. She called her grandmother and the door was opened. The victim was found lying on the floor bleeding,” Zwane said.

A case of rape was reported at Howick Police Station and the case docket was transferred to the Howick Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit.

The girl had been seriously injured and was taken to hospital for medical attention.

Source: News24

Fear of rape force girls to bunk school

Girl pupils in farming communities bunk school not out of choice but out of fear of being robbed, assaulted and raped on their way to and from school, a survey has revealed.

They live far from their schools and have to walk long distances either because they do not qualify for the government’s schools transport scheme or the service in their area is unreliable.

Of the 320 pupils in the Stellenbosch, Wellington, Grabouw and Wolseley farming areas who took part in the study, 48 percent have been robbed on their way to school and 37 percent have been exposed to sexual assault.

These statistics were revealed last week in a Women on Farms Project (WFP) study.

The WFP said its survey revealed many rural youngsters spent over an hour walking to school in the mornings and another hour walking back home in often harsh weather conditions.

Karen Roos, WFP’s women’s health and empowerment programme co-ordinator, said “girls have been raped and some girls encounter men exposing their genitals or asking them for sex”.

The study also revealed transport schemes plagued with problems, including overloaded buses, buses in a poor state of repair and an unreliable bus service which often results in pupils reaching school after classes have started.

Source: Weekend Argus

Gang rape at primary school ignored for weeks

Police officers from Boschkop police station in Gauteng confirmed that an 8-year-old girl and her classmate were examined following reports that they had been raped.

“I am so hurt; the principal has been aware of this for two weeks. Despite telling parents that he has taken the matter to the police, he has done nothing,” the father said.

The father had discovered possible sexual assault on his daughter two weeks ago.

When he investigated it emerged that his little girl had been one of four girls, aged between 7 and 9, raped allegedly by four older boys at the Kutumela Molefi Primary School at Lethabong informal settlement, east of Pretoria.

“I spoke with the mother of one of the girls and she found that her child been badly injured.”

The mother had gone to the school and was told that the problem would be dealt with by the principal.

“The principal said he would investigate. A few days later he said he had reported it to the police. When I followed up, I found the police had no idea that this had happened.”

In the past two weeks, the parents have been sent from pillar to post by the principal and teachers at the school.

They also promised to bring in counsellors to make sure the children were examined for signs of penetration.

“My wife has also been threatened for speaking about this in public, being told that she should not dare tarnish the image of the principal,” the father said.

His wife and stepmother of the child had been to the school to enquire on the progress of the school’s investigation when she was allegedly intimidated by the teachers.

When progress was not forthcoming, the worried father enlisted the help of members of his church.

Policies required the school to report such incidents to the department, police and medical professionals immediately on becoming aware of them.

The Boschkop police scheduled the girls for counselling ths week, and officers opened a case and started their investigation immediately.

Gardener guilty of raping 3-year-old

A former gardener at the Lesedi Day Care Centre in Floors was on Thursday found guilty of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl in the centre’s bathroom.

Cedric Golding, 31, a coloured man on Thursday appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court’s sexual offences courtroom where magistrate, Jesse Clarke, explained his verdict.

Golding was initially charged with two counts of rape following the incident in September 2011. He pleaded not guilty.

The young victim testified during the trial that Golding, who worked as a gardener at the centre, took her from the playground to the centre’s bathroom, where he touched her vagina and anus, while the teachers “were busy inside”.

She also illustrated, with the aid of anatomically-correct dolls, what exactly happened.

The child’s mother also testified that the normally vibrant child had come home from the centre one afternoon and was “not her usual self”.

Source: IOL

Getting away with rape

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has revealed that sexual violence is rife in her department, admitting in parliament that there had been 69 complaints of rape and sexual harassment in the past three years alone.

However, not a single defence department employee accused of rape has been convicted .

Mapisa-Nqakula was responding to a question from an opposition memeber who wanted to know how many cases of sexual assault, rape and child pornography relating to the department had been reported between 2009 and 2013.

Mapisa-Nqakula said that 15 rapes and 54 sexual assaults were reported to her department during that time , adding that “appropriate policies” and system s were in place to prevent sex crimes.

Source: timeslive.co.za

School mum on pre-school rape

A Grade R girl, 5, is alleged to have been raped by three Grade 2 boys on the grounds of a Mitchells Plain school.

It happened on March 4, but the school failed to notify the girl’s parents. Only during a conversation with her teacher on March 13 did the parents learn their child had allegedly been raped.

The girl’s father, who is not being identified in order to protect his daughter’s identity, said the school had “failed in its duties”.

He said the police opened a case and took the family to a social worker and to GF Jooste Hospital the next day.

“After that session (with a doctor) she and my wife came out crying. My daughter was crying because of an injection she had received. My wife was crying because the results were positive in terms of penetration.”

The family await the results of HIV and other tests.

The girl’s father says she is severely traumatised and afraid to return to class.

The alleged incident happened while the girl was waiting for her transport home after school. Her father said she usually waited in an office but later found out that on that day she had been “chased out” by a staff member. He said he later learnt his daughter had been approached by the three boys who ordered her to hold on to a tree.

“They ordered her to take off her underwear. She didn’t want to. They forced her to do it and did what they wanted to do.”

He said the boys told her they were going to kill her if she reported them, but she told a teacher the next day. The girl didn’t tell her parents.

The father said that on March 6 he received a phone call from the school and was told that there were problems with his daughter’s transport. They wanted to know if he could come to the school the next day.

He said the next morning he received another call from the school who asked if he was still coming “because the parents were there” so he assumed it was a general parents’ meeting and that it would be finished by the time he arrived there.

He later found out the “parents” were the alleged perpetrators’ parents.

“Nobody told me that my daughter had been raped. I would have left everything I was doing and gone to the school.”

The father said that on Thursday he saw her class teacher outside he asked about his daughter’s progress in class.

“The teacher said she was okay. Then she said: ‘I thought you had come here because of the rape’. We asked her what she meant.”

The parents demanded to see the principal immediately. They said he told them he was under the impression they had been informed.

Source: IOL

Cruel murders shock town

The family of two Malmesbury sisters found bound and bludgeoned to death, said they found it difficult to comprehend their brutal murder.

Sophia Syster, 43, and Sylvia Syster, 31, were found dead inside the Eatsumore Take-Aways in Main Road, Malmesbury, on Tuesday.

While one of the sisters was found bound and naked on the floor, the other was found partially hidden under a bed.

On Wednesday, the police could not confirm whether the pair had been sexually assaulted.

Anton Blom, the take-away’s owner, said they had been killed in a cruel manner, apparently with a hammer.

“I unlocked the shop at 6.35am and found the one lady on the floor in her bedroom.

“The place was in disarray.”

He said he was so shocked that he immediately called the police, not yet having seen the other woman under the bed.

Sophia had been working at the takeaway for 15 months.

Sylvia often slept on the streets.

“It was so cruel. I heard she was hit with a hammer.”

Blom said the perpetrators had come in through the shop’s ceiling.

“It is such a big shock to everyone.”

Charney Syster, Sophia’s daughter, said the family could not believe it when they heard the news.

“It was really difficult for us.”

“We still have to see the bodies, they have not completed the autopsies yet,” she said.

The last time she had seen her mom was on Saturday when she had told her that she would be going to the beach on Sunday.

Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said no arrests had yet been made. – IOL

Niece allegedly raped by uncle

He allegedly raped her several times while she was staying at his house

A 37-year-old man appeared in court on September 10 after being suspected of raping his niece.

Capt Jethro Mtshali, spokesman for Kempton Park SAPS, said the rape was discovered when the girl fell pregnant.

She said to her dad she was feeling sick when he dropped her at school. After getting sicker that day her father took her to a doctor who confirmed the girl was pregnant.

She stayed with her uncle between March 1 and April 1 at his house on Rooibos Street in Kempton Park when he allegedly raped her several times. – looklocal.co.za

Nigerian music director who fathered 6 kids with his daughters, gets 90 years

An Award winning Nigerian music director found guilty of fathering children with his daughters will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Aswad Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, NJ, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday after being found guilty in the second of five expected trials in which he is accused of repeatedly raping his six daughters, resulting in six children being fathered. Mr. Ayinde was found guilty in his latest trial of having intercourse with one of his daughters when she was as young as eight-years-old. The second sentence adds to the 40 year sentence Mr Ayinde received in a 2011 trial for sexually assaulting a separate daughter.

Mr. Ayinde is known for directing the music video for the Fugees 1996 smash hit ‘Killing Me Softly.’

In a disturbing disclosure during his first trial, Mr. Ayinde’s former wife said he was trying to create a ‘pure family bloodline’ by impregnating his daughters. He even claimed during a pre-trial hearing before the first trial that ‘the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen.’

In this latest trial, it was revealed that Mr. Ayinde began having intercourse with his second daughter from the time she eight-years-old, impregnating her four times.

As repoted by Mail Online the sexual assaults happened for almost 30 years until Mr. Ayinde and his wife separated, officials said. They occurred in numerous homes across northern New Jersey, even while the family was under watch of state child welfare officials, according to NBC New York. Some of the rapes even took place in an abandoned funeral home.

The family moving as far away as Florida to avoid investigation after case workers removed multiple children from the Ayinde household in 2000, resulting in Mr. Ayinde being arrested for kidnapping for trying to take them from state custody in a medical center, NBC New York reported.

He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and received a year’s probation – as he continued raping one daughter for at least another two years, according to officials.

The depraved father also beat and starved the girls using wooden boards and steel-toed boots for even ‘minor transgressions,’ Ayinde’s wife testified at the first trial.

Some of the children Ayinde fathered with his daughters were born in the home, with at least two babies who died in the home having been buried without notifying authorities or obtaining birth certificates, NBC New York reported.

Mr. Ayinde also fathered 12 additional children with an additional three women, according to court records

Ayinde’s tortured daughters were home schooled and isolated from other children, so as to keep the family secrets hidden, the station added.

With his wife too afraid to confront him, Mr. Ayinde carried out his evil plan without hindrance even while directing the music video for the Fugees 1996 breakout hit ‘Killing Me Softly, for which he won ‘Best R&B Video’ at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards. The Fugees are also originally from Northern New Jersey.

Mr. Ayinde faces three more trials over the alleged assaults. – Vanguard