Cops nab suspected sex pest

MEDIA MAN: ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING AT LEAST THREE SCHOOLBOYS

Seven more men tell police how he allegedly groomed them.

An alleged sex offender has been arrested at his psychologist’s practice in Hartenbos, near Mossel Bay. The man, who was arrested yesterday, is accused of sexually molesting several schoolboys from at least three schools from 1989 to 1994.

Deon Wiggett, a copywriter, published the first episode of My Only Story, a four-episode podcast in which he reveals how the man allegedly raped him and sexually abused other schoolboys in the ’90s.

The man, a former journalist and magazine executive at Media24, closed his digital marketing agency, switched off his cellphone and deleted his social media profiles days after the first podcast.

He reportedly left for Reebok, a small town close to Mossel Bay, where his mother, who is ill, lives.

Western Cape police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel André Traut confirmed police were investigating him after Wiggett opened a criminal case against him.

According to police sources, investigating officer Warrant Officer Rowan Andrews had been inundated with more names of alleged victims after the man’s name was revealed by News24.

The Citizen cannot reveal his name as he has not yet pleaded.

He is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a charge of sexual assault tomorrow.

Seven more men have contacted the police with their accounts of how he allegedly groomed them as teenagers.

Wiggett told News24 that apart from him and two men who gave statements to News24’s lawyers, 13 more came forward with allegations against the man.