Sex-ring accused Ackerman acquitted on two of 740 charges: Gerhard Ackerman has been acquitted on two charges of rape among the 740 charges related to the alleged child sex ring.
This after lawyer Herman Alberts argued for Ackerman’s right to acquittal in terms of section 174 after the witnesses did not testify to any oral sex performed on them by Ackerman.Alberts submitted to the court a formal admission in terms of section 220 of the Criminal Procedure Act on some aspects of the case.
Claassen is an expert who analysed the contents of Ackerman’s devices, including cellphones and laptop seized during his arrest. Ackerman also admitted to receiving money from co-accused Adv Paul Kennedy but said he was meant to give it to someone else. While Kennedy was added as a co-accused in the matter, he died from an apparent suicide before the matter made it to trial.
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