{"id":13448,"date":"2014-03-18T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13448"},"modified":"2014-03-18T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:32:27","slug":"school-mum-on-pre-school-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13448","title":{"rendered":"School mum on pre-school rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"childrape3\"<\/a>A Grade R girl, 5, is alleged to have been raped by three Grade 2 boys on the grounds of a Mitchells Plain school.<\/p>\n

It happened on March 4, but the school failed to notify the girl\u2019s parents. Only during a conversation with her teacher on March 13 did the parents learn their child had allegedly been raped.<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s father, who is not being identified in order to protect his daughter\u2019s identity, said the school had \u201cfailed in its duties\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the police opened a case and took the family to a social worker and to GF Jooste Hospital the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family await the results of HIV and other tests.<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s father says she is severely traumatised and afraid to return to class.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cchased out\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey ordered her to take off her underwear. She didn\u2019t want to. They forced her to do it and did what they wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019t tell her parents.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s transport. They wanted to know if he could come to the school the next day.<\/p>\n

He said the next morning he received another call from the school who asked if he was still coming \u201cbecause the parents were there\u201d so he assumed it was a general parents\u2019 meeting and that it would be finished by the time he arrived there.<\/p>\n

He later found out the \u201cparents\u201d were the alleged perpetrators\u2019 parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody told me that my daughter had been raped. I would have left everything I was doing and gone to the school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The father said that on Thursday he saw her class teacher outside he asked about his daughter\u2019s progress in class.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teacher said she was okay. Then she said: \u2018I thought you had come here because of the rape\u2019. We asked her what she meant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parents demanded to see the principal immediately. They said he told them he was under the impression they had been informed.<\/p>\n

Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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