A schoolboy tricked his sister into letting him into her hostel room before raping her roommate.
THE brother of a Northern Province schoolgirl raped her roommate in front of her, after tricking them both into letting him into their bedroom before dawn on Wednesday, African Eye News Service reports.
Police spokeswoman Inspector Mosima Serite said the girls were asleep in a hostel at Tshebela High School, in Mankweng near Pietersburg, when the brother knocked on the door at about 2am.
The youth is also a boarder at the school, and told the girls some men wanted to kill him.
“He told them the men were chasing him, and the girls let him into their bedroom,” said Serite.
Once he was inside he asked the girls if he could sleep there, saying he was afraid of returning to his own room. Soon afterwards he raped the 17-year-old girl although his sister was woken by the noise of the attack, and was watching him. The victim screamed several times, and the youth ran away after raping her. Serite said the girls told the matron of the female hostel what happened, and police were called in the morning.
No one has yet been arrested. The sister is also 17, but the rapist’s age is not yet known.
Serite said the girls had not yet made formal statements.
— African Eye News Service, February 3, 2000.