Teachers urged ‘secrecy’

A GIRL who was raped, allegedly by a scholar patroller, told the High Court sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court yesterday that teachers told her not to tell her mother about the incident.

Johannes Molefe, former scholar patroller at the AB Xuma Primary School, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him at the start of his trial yesterday.

He is facing charges of raping three children and sexually assaulting 11 children.

The girl, who testified yesterday, was in Grade 2 at the time of the rape in 2017.

“I told my mother that there was something that happened at school that they said we shouldn’t tell you. I asked her to promise that she won’t tell anyone.”

She said Molefe sexually assaulted her using his finger while she was walking with him and other pupils.

She said Molefe said he wanted the children to come to his house so he could “spoil” them and make them dinner.

The girl said her friends did not see what Molefe was doing to her. The girl demonstrated to the court how she was standing when Molefe assaulted her.

She said after the incident Molefe went to buy them sweets.

“It was the first time mkhulu (grandfather) touched me like that,” the girl said. “He never did it again after that day.”

She told the court that she could not remember the exact date when the incident occurred but it was before her birthday, which was in September.

The trial continues. |