The mother of a pupil who was raped at school and then sexually assaulted by a police officer investigating the case, says they are now being failed by the slow wheels of justice.
“My daughter is suffering from anxiety and you can see that she is not the same child she was. She is shy and she is not as talkative as she once was.”A senior court official on Tuesday told Sowetan that the Protea magistrate’s court was bedevilled by a number of issues, which made it hard to conclude sexual offences cases involving minors.
“Cases involving minors can take up to four years to conclude. Ideally, we would like to conclude them as soon as possible but that is not realistic. Cases are stuck on a court roll for lengthy periods because there aren’t enough intermediaries or because of the broken equipment. It prejudices against child victims.”
“Child victims do not have a good memory. When a case takes long to conclude, they forget some of the details contained in their statements and this has an adverse bearing on the outcome of the case,” he said. The department’s spokesperson Stephans Mahlangu said he could not immediately respond to questions sent to him as their systems had been hacked.
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