A 35-year-old man was arrested following the rape of a five-year-old girl in Vosloorus on Sunday, police said on Monday.
Superintendent Andy Pieke said the child was allegedly raped on Sunday around 2pm at the Sotho hostel in Vosloorus on the East Rand. The man was arrested by the Katorus child protection unit on Monday morning.
Pieke said the girl told police the man had asked her to go and buy some beer for him and when she returned he locked the door to his room and raped her on the bed.
The suspect was expected appear in the Vosloorus Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Pieke said. – Sapa