'Husband' on trial for forced marriage of mentally disabled girl hires new lawyer
Port Elizabeth - The trial involving a mentally disabled 13-year-old girl who was allegedly trafficked and forced into a marriage with an elderly man, was postponed yet again in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday.
The court on Monday instructed new attorney Advocate Motsamai Marele to peruse the docket so the matter could proceed to trial on Tuesday. The girl’s so-called 61-year-old husband faces two additional charges of rape. The trio have not yet pleaded to the charges against them. From there, in January 2015, the girl went to live with the 63-year-old woman’s daughter in Bizana in rural Eastern Cape, where she attended school.
Court documents cite that when the teenager resisted the man’s advances he strangled her and forcefully had sex with her. In January 2017, the man instructed his stepdaughter to take the girl to buy clothes and a bus ticket to Durban.
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