An Eastern Cape mother says police in Matatiele have been dragging their feet investigating her seven-year-old daughter’s rape.
She also says Bergview College, the private school where she says the rape took place, failed to report it immediately to the education department.
According to the mother, whose name is withheld to protect the identity of the child, the incident happened after school while her daughter was waiting for her transport on 14 October. The mother says she only discovered later that day that her daughter’s scholar transport had arrived late to pick her up.her daughter acted strangely when she got home. The following morning, the child didn’t want to go to school but her mother sent her anyway.
“None of us thought of rape. But I took her to the doctor, who told me that my daughter was sexually assaulted.” She was transferred to another officer who said that they couldn’t do anything because the child “didn’t want to talk”.“And why none of the men who were around my daughter that day were not tested? The officer told me she cannot do that because those people have rights,” the mother said.Only when she revealed that she was a warrant officer at another station did police start paying attention to her daughter’s case, she says.
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