{"id":13578,"date":"2014-03-27T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13578"},"modified":"2014-03-27T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:37:12","slug":"worst-serial-child-rapist-may-have-been-caught-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13578","title":{"rendered":"Worst serial child rapist may have been caught by accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rape8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11960\" alt=\"rape8\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rape8.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>The SAPS is investigating at least 100 counts of rape against a Tembisa man. The figure would make the man the country\u2019s worst serial rapist if he is found guilty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source familiar with the investigation \u2013 who cannot be named as he isn\u2019t authorised to speak to the media \u2013 said the 40-year-old was accused of having raped more than 50 schoolgirls between the ages of 6 and 12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the counts against him include kidnapping and assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused had been in custody since his arrest on July 11 last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His arrest came shortly after he was released from custody on a matter not related to rape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is understood police are still investigating more cases, which are said to have linked the man to incidents in other parts of Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused, who cannot be named before he pleads to the charges, was expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate\u2019s Court on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Star understood on Wednesday that the matter would be postponed to next month for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gauteng provincial police spokeswoman Captain Doniah Mothutsane confirmed that the accused was facing rape charges but could not state the exact number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c(Sometimes, he would) claim that his child lived at a particular house, asking the children for directions or to enter those houses to call the child \u2013 (only for the child) to find out that it was just a formulated story that would make him lead the children elsewhere, mostly into the veld,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tembisa man faces more charges than Mongezi Samuel Jingxela, South Africa\u2019s worst serial rapist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jingxela was found guilty and imprisoned in 2010 of having committed 66 rapes within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lured his women victims under the pretext that he would employ them at a factory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, Sifiso Makhubo, also from Ekurhuleni, was found dead in a Johannesburg Prison cell, hours before he was due to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhubo was accused of raping 33 girls and two women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors were planning to charge the HIV-positive man with attempted murder \u2013 the first time they would have done so in a case in which someone had committed rape knowing his HIV status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SAPS is investigating at least 100 counts of rape against a Tembisa man. The figure would make the man the country\u2019s worst serial rapist if he is found guilty. A source familiar with the investigation \u2013 who cannot be named as he isn\u2019t authorised to speak to the media \u2013 said the 40-year-old was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worst serial child rapist may have been caught by accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5986,36,8181,8734],"class_list":["post-13578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-childrape","tag-rape","tag-rapist","tag-serial-rapist"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rape8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13581,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions\/13581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}