Courts unable to stem tide of brutal attacks on children
By TMG Editor - 05 June 2014
EARLY last month convicted child rapist Xolile Tose was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal attack on a six-year-old girl in 2011, but the Port Elizabeth High Court still has its share of child rape cases streaming in.
During sentencing Judge Jeremy Pickering said: "The injuries inflicted on the complainant in this case are the worst I have seen in my 20 years on the high court bench.
"The six-year-old girl, weighing a mere 20kg, was subjected to a brutal and horrifying ordeal."
The young Motherwell girl, now aged eight, was forced to undergo a series of reconstructive surgeries and wear a colostomy bag as a result of the brutal rape which the state alleges lasted over 15 hours. - Lee-Anne Butler
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