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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The charge sheet against Gerhard Ackerman, who is accused of running a child sex ring, was so exhaustive he was unable to plead to all the counts in a single day.<\/p>\n

Ackerman appeared in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Monday, where he started pleading to the more than 730 charges against him.<\/p>\n

The charges relate largely to a child sex ring he allegedly ran which also involved acting judge and senior advocate Paul Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Kennedy died by suicide some months after he was arrested and charged alongside Ackerman.<\/p>\n

Standing in the dock for the official start of his trial, Ackerman wore a black jacket, green trousers, a face mask, and a Kufi cap which is often associated with Islam.<\/p>\n

Ackerman pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges including:<\/p>\n

After Ackerman pleaded not guilty to the 700th charge, Judge Ismail Mahomed postponed the trial to Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ackerman still has more than 40 counts he needed to plead to before the trial moves to hear evidence from the State’s first witness.<\/p>\n

He is accused of trafficking minor teenagers and sexually grooming them before selling their services to other adult clients for money.<\/p>\n

The State alleged he benefitted financially from these services.<\/p>\n

Ackerman is also accused of raping and sexual assaulting some of the victims himself.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Kennedy was not only a client of Ackerman’s, but helped him allegedly procure the teenagers for sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n

In one instance, Kennedy allegedly paid for a bus ticket for one of the male teenagers to come to Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

It is alleged the crimes were committed between September 2020 and July 2021, shortly before their arrests.<\/p>\n

The accused had been out on bail for the alleged sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy when he allegedly committed myriad sexual offences against other minors with Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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