A deaf-and-dumb woman was raped, allegedly by two men, in Butterworth on Saturday morning, Eastern Cape police said.
The 20-year-old grade-11 pupil from Gauteng, on holiday in the area, was accompanied to her family’s house following a party in the Bungeni informal settlement, said Captain Jackson Manatha.
”The friends left her in her room with her family. Around 4am, two men entered this room and forcefully took her to a shack where they took turns to rape her.”
Using sign language, she told her friends who took her to a local police station.
”A case of rape was opened with the assistance of one of her friends who knew sign language and interpreted,” said Manatha.
He said the perpetrators were known and their arrests were expected soon. — Sapa