The 38-year-old targeted schoolgirls and forced children to watch him rape him.
A South African court on Tuesday convicted a man of more than 90 rapes, some involving children, in a case that has deeply shocked the country.
A court in Palm Ridge, near Johannesburg, convicted 38-year-old Nkosinathi Phakathi of targeting schoolgirls and forcing children to watch him rape for nine years between 2012 and 2021.
“He attacked his victims when they went to and from school or work, in the morning or in the evening (…) He attacked some of them in their own homes,” Lumka Mahanjana, spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, explained in a press release.
“He pretended to be an electrician who had come to fix a kettle or other household appliances and raped her (…). adds.
Most of his victims were school children, with the youngest being nine and the oldest being 44, according to prosecutors.
He was arrested in March 2021 after attempting to return to the home of one of his victims, prosecutors said. The police shot him in the leg, which has since been amputated.
“Pandemic” of rape
On Tuesday, the convict, who pleaded guilty to 148 charges last week, sat in a gray hoodie and stared at the ground. His head was sunk between his forearms, which rested on two crutches, as the judge reviewed the long list of his crimes.
He was later convicted of 90 rapes, forced to rape four others, forcing a child to watch a sex act three times, 43 kidnappings, two assaults and four robberies.
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He will have to serve his sentence in early December. “The state intends to ask the court to issue a verdict that sends a strong message that such crimes of sexual violence will not be tolerated,” Lumka Mahanjana said.
The ruling comes a week after South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said sexual violence should be seen as the country’s most important “pandemic”, while not a day goes by without fresh reports of “horrific” crimes.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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