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\u2019s bathroom.<\/p>\n
Cedric Golding, 31, a coloured man on Thursday appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate\u2019s Court\u2019s sexual offences courtroom where magistrate, Jesse Clarke, explained his verdict.<\/p>\n
Golding was initially charged with two counts of rape following the incident in September 2011. He pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s bathroom, where he touched her vagina and anus, while the teachers \u201cwere busy inside\u201d.<\/p>\n
She also illustrated, with the aid of anatomically-correct dolls, what exactly happened.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s mother also testified that the normally vibrant child had come home from the centre one afternoon and was \u201cnot her usual self\u201d.<\/p>\n
Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2019s bathroom. Cedric Golding, 31, a coloured man on Thursday appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate\u2019s Court\u2019s sexual offences courtroom where magistrate, Jesse Clarke, explained his verdict. Golding was initially charged with … Continue reading “Gardener guilty of raping 3-year-old”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[374,34,4535],"class_list":["post-14298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-child-rape","tag-crime","tag-sexual-assault"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}