/ 11 October 2000

COP CHARGED WITH RAPE

NORTHERN province police are investigating a Seshego police sergeant who allegedly inserted his fingers into the private parts of a teenage girl who had just been raped. The policeman, a member of the crime prevention unit, has not been arrested or suspended. The teenage girl said The policeman lured her into his room at the station’s barracks and forcibly fondled her and apparently tried to rape her after she had reported the earlier rape. She escaped the following morning and reported the assault. The man who allegedly raped her earlier has been arrested and will appear in court soon. – African Eye News Service