/ 19 December 2000

LIFE IN JAIL FOR RAPIST OF 6-YEAR-OLD

AN East London High Court judge has dismissed a probation officer’s report and sentenced a 19-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl. Judge Johan Froneman said the officer had failed to consider the trauma suffered by the girl and had focused on the advantages of the accused receiving a suspended sentence. The girl told the court how she was deceived into entering a house and raped at knife point by Bulelani Charlie.