Police were searching for three men — one of whom raped a 35-year-old woman in front of her six-year-old child in their house in Leeufontein in the Roodeplaat area, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.
Captain Jan Sepato said the woman and her husband were asleep on Monday night in their house in the Pebble Rock complex in Leeufontein when the gang struck.
They were awoken just before midnight by three men, one armed, standing in their bedroom.
The men ordered the couple to lie on their stomachs and then demanded firearms and money.
The husband told them that there were no guns in the house but that he had R5 000 in a cupboard. The men took the money and then tied the husband’s hands before taking him to the bathroom, where one robber stood watch over him.
One of the men then fetched the couple’s two children, a six-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, from their bedroom.
The man took the girl to the bathroom and took the boy into the master bedroom and made him lie down next to his mother. One of the men then raped the woman.
The men took two television sets, cellphones and other valuables before fleeing.
A case of rape and house robbery was being investigated.
No arrests have been made, said Sepato. – Sapa