A man was arrested on Saturday after he and three others allegedly forced a stone into a woman’s vagina in Germiston on Saturday, Johannesburg police reported on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Sergeant Prudence Mvelase said the 20-year-old woman was on her way home when she was approached by four men next to a library in Alra Park around 3.30pm.
The men threatened the woman and pulled her into a nearby field where they undressed and raped her. The woman managed to walk to a local police station. She was taken to the hospital and the fist-sized stone was removed.
Mvelase said police received information about the whereabouts of the men on Saturday night. They proceeded to Gazel Street in Alra Park where they arrested a 22-year-old man. His three alleged accomplices managed to get away.
The man is expected to appear in the Nigel Magistrate’s Court on charges of indecent assault as well as assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, on Monday.
East Rand police spokesperson Sergeant Zithini Dlamini told the Mail & Guardian Online on Monday that the woman knew the other three suspects and that the police expected to arrest them soon. Dlamini said that the traumatised woman was receiving counselling. – Sapa