{"id":9623,"date":"2013-08-26T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T06:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2013-08-26T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T06:59:50","slug":"police-officer-may-be-serial-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"Police officer may be serial rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police rapist Molekoa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Randburg police constable and sector commander charged with rape and robbery has been linked to seven more rape cases through DNA evidence.<\/p>\n

A senior investigating officer for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), Mandlakayise Mahlangu, also told the Hammanskraal Periodical Court that he feared they were dealing with a serial rapist.<\/p>\n

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Constable Mokolo Karpos Molekoa, 30, together with Ephraim Mazwi, 29, and Maphuthi Molokomme, 27, are applying for bail in the case in which they allegedly gang-raped a 27-year-old female hitch-hiker on July 8 near Hammanskraal.<\/p>\n

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They allegedly raped the woman in the bushes after she had turned down Molekoa’s advances. The court heard that they left her helpless in the bush.<\/p>\n

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“She could not walk properly because she was in severe pain. She managed to reach the N1 freeway, where she was assisted by a truck driver,” senior Ipid investigator Khangale Makhado said.<\/p>\n

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At the time of his arrest, Molekoa was a commander of the Ferndale and Praegville sectors in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

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The majority of cases were reported in Olifantsfontein, Sebenza and Rabie Ridge areas.<\/p>\n

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The accused’s application was postponed to August 31 for the defence to address court and possible judgement.<\/p>\n

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This has brought to nine the number of rape cases against Molekoa. The 10th is an attempted rape case reported in Ellisras in Limpopo. A warrant of arrest has been issued in the Ellisras Magistrate’s Court.<\/p>\n

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When the court asked Mahlangu why he was opposing bail though he had visited and confirmed the accused’s addresses, he said: “I suspect we are dealing with a serial rapist here (Molekoa).” – Sowetan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Randburg police constable and sector commander charged with rape and robbery has been linked to seven more rape cases through DNA evidence. A senior investigating officer for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), Mandlakayise Mahlangu, also told the Hammanskraal Periodical Court that he feared they were dealing with a serial rapist. Constable Mokolo Karpos … Continue reading “Police officer may be serial rapist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5491,4607,5490],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-constable-mokolo-karpos-molekoa","tag-dna","tag-police-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\/08\/policerape.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","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=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}