Initially being held in Khayelitsha, she was continuously raped, until injuries to her genitalia resulted in her heading to a clinic where a nurse heard her plight and contacted a relative who rescued her from her situation.
gave a chilling victim impact statement in the Cape Town Regional Court during sentencing proceedings of her rapist.She was trafficked to Cape Town where she was married off to a man older than her mother.
The court ordered the sentences to run concurrently, effectively sentencing him to life imprisonment. The court ordered his name be entered into the National Register of Sex Offenders and the National Child Protection Register. It further declared him unfit to possess a firearm. In her words, the survivor said she was still traumatised by what has happened, and as a result no longer trusts or has any love for men.
She recalled how she’d be fine during the day but this would change when she knew she had to go to bed with this man. The woman said she still has a vivid picture of everything that has happened.
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