Rape victim, 71, ‘wanted to take own life with rat poison’
Traumatised Soweto-on-Sea pensioner planned suicide before deciding to get help, court hears
The abuse she suffered, allegedly at the hands of her neighbour, left an elderly woman from Soweto-on-Sea so traumatised, she visited four different shops looking for rat poison so she could take her own life.
When the 71-year-old’s suicide attempt failed, she contacted a close friend and her daughter, telling them she had been raped by a man who had grown up in front of her...
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