A 75-year-old man was jailed for five years in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday for paying a 12-year-old girl to have sex with him. Johan Ngomane of Newskom trust near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga was found guilty of statutory rape and will only spend three years in prison, as two years were suspended for five years. Ngomane paid to have sex with the girl between January and November last year. He was arrested in December. Magistrate Andre Geldenhuys said he was impressed that Ngomane pleaded guilty. Before passing sentence, he also took into account that it was Ngomane’s first offence, as well as the fact that he was a pensioner and had a wife. – African Eye News Service