/ 10 February 2001

NO BAIL FOR CHILD SEX ACCUSED

AN Mpumalanga businessman and an unemployed man accused of child sex will remain in custody for the duration of their trial. Security company owner and auctioneer Daniel Francois Botha, 57, and his friend Andries Johannes van der Mescht, 37, spent three days trying to convince the Belfast Magistrates Court to grant them bail. Their co-accused, a widow, is accused of forcing her son, aged 13, and daughter, aged 10, to perform sexual acts with the two men in return for payment. – African Eye News Service