Victim of Eastern Cape school assault awarded R5m in damages

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Victim of Eastern Cape school assault awarded R5m in damages
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A young woman has won a significant legal victory after the Eastern Cape education department admitted to teachers negligence.

Girl raped in Eastern Cape school ‘house of horrors’ to receive R5m in damages. Image:Pexels/ RODNAE Productions

This decision comes after she was subjected to a harrowing incident of rape during a fundraising event termed as a “house of horrors” organized for pupils at her primary school.reported that teachers had organised a ‘house of horrors’ fundraiser and left children without supervision at Susannah Fourie Primary School in Kariega.

Two men were allegedly reported that they had the same masks given to the boys and had slipped into the toilet without being noticed and snatched the girl and sexually assaulted her.Finally she has now found some justice, at the age of 19 represented by Lessing Van der Bank Attorneys.

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