PODCAST | In 'Huis van Greuwels', the oldest child of the man who would be dubbed “The Springs Monster” shares her 16 years of hell in a home where torture, beatings, rape, prostitution and drugs were daily occurrences.
Iavan Pijoos
On May 20 2014, 17 police officers and three social workers pulled up outside a double-storey house in a busy road in Springs on the East Rand. They had received a complaint regarding a child at risk within the house. What they discovered beyond the seemingly normal facade of this family home disturbed even seasoned child protection officers.
Four years later, one of the survivors from this house of horrors has written a book about her experiences.the oldest child of the man who would be dubbed “The Springs Monster” shares her 16 years of hell in a home where torture, beatings, rape, prostitution and drugs were daily occurrences.podcast, we delve into the sordid depths of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever uncovered in South Africa.
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