Africa-Press – South-Africa. A Free State father has been sentenced to six life terms for raping his daughter multiple times.
The 36-year-old man from Clocolan was sentenced in the Free State High Court in Ladybrand after he was found guilty of raping his 14-year-old daughter.
The father raped his daughter six times between May and July 2021.
He cannot be named to protect the identity of his daughter.
“The victim was staying with the accused, along with his wife, who is her stepmother, and two other siblings. In May 2021, the accused told his wife that his late brother told him in a dream, ‘to get rid of [a] tokoloshe that was inside the victim’.
“The very same night of the alleged dream, the accused raped the victim,” said National Prosecuting Authority regional spokesperson Phaladi Shuping.
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“The wife tried to reprimand him, but he assaulted her. He overpowered and raped the victim, notwithstanding her cries and his wife’s reprimands. He threatened to kill both of them if they were to tell anyone of what he did.
“A day later, the accused’s sister visited the family and the wife told her what the husband had done to the child. The sister reported [her] brother to the police, and he was arrested.”
Shuping said, in aggravation of sentence, that the State advocate, Moipone Moroka, submitted a victim impact, in which the teenager thanked her aunt for “coming to her rescue because, if it was not because of her, she would still be her father’s sex slave”.
Moroka was quoted as saying:
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