A TRANSKEI man has been arrested after he allegedly raped six young schoolgirls, the youngest of whom was four years old. Four of the girls were attacked on one day at the beginning of the month in the village of Ngudle, just outside Tsomo.
Police arrested the suspect last week at his parents’ home in the same village. His detention came after the four-year-old Grade R child told her parents about the alleged sex attack.
The mother of one of the alleged victims said she cried when her five-year-old daughter told her in detail what the suspect had allegedly done to them. And she sobbed yesterday as she explained how her daughter told her what happened when the man put her on top of a sofa in his room.
“She said the man took turns to rape about four of them while the room was locked.”
On the day the four- year-old complained to her parents, one of the victims’ moms tracked down other parents whose children were allegedly raped by the suspect. By the end of that day, six children had come forward in total, alleging they had all been sexually assaulted by the suspect, but not necessarily at the same time.
The oldest alleged victim was eight years old and in Grade 3.
“They told us that this man would kneel in front of them and raped them while the others were looking. The four-year-old told us exactly that,” said one mom. “They loved this man because he was giving them sweets and chocolates. He just lured them knowing what his plans were.”
The children were taken to Cofimvaba Hospital for examination.
Villagers and some teachers suspect that the children were allegedly raped after school and sometimes over weekends.
“The children have been receiving counselling from social workers and we are trying by all means to make sure that they forget about what has happened,” said Ngewu.
Queenstown police spokesperson Captain Zamikhaya Qinisile confirmed the suspect had been arrested and would appear in the Cofimvaba Magistrate’s Court tomorrow where he will face six counts of rape.
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