Rapist gets life for assaulting girl, 11
A 36-YEAR-OLD man has been handed a life sentence by the Schweizer-Reneke Regional Court for the rape of an 11-year-old girl more than two-and-ahalf years ago, North West police said.
The sentence was handed down last week, police spokesperson Adéle Myburgh said yesterday.
The court heard the man had raped his former girlfriend’s daughter on December 31, 2017, in Ipelegeng at Schweizer-Reneke. The girl was asleep in her bed when the accused woke her up and raped her.
She reported the incident to her mother at about 8pm that night. The mother found the man asleep in her daughter’s bed. The man was arrested.
North West police commissioner Sello Kwena lauded the detectives involved, Abram Hlatswayo and Mpho Mokgosi, for their efforts to ensure that “a merciless rapist gets a hefty sentence”. |