'Woman saw foster daughter as love rival'

THE Port Elizabeth High Court heard yesterday how a 41- year-old woman allegedly started to see her 13-year-old foster daughter as a rival for her partner's affections after finding naked pictures of the girl on his phone.

Psychologist Wendy Nunn, who examined the woman during the trial, concluded her testimony in mitigation of sentence.

On Monday, the Parsonsvlei woman was convicted of consensual sexual penetration of a child, consensual sexual violation of a child, displaying pornographic material to a child, failure to report a rape and unlawful possession of child pornography related to her foster daughter.

Her 40-year-old boyfriend was convicted of rape, sexual assault, displaying pornography to a child and the unlawful possession of child pornography. - Lee-Anne Butler

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