Facebook rapist sentencing postponed to Wednesday
Some of the victims were lured from areas such as Vosloorus, Atteridgeville, Mpumalanga and Thembisa.
The sentencing of Sibusiso Khoza, who was found guilty of raping and robbing women he lured on Facebook after promising them fake jobs as childminders, has been postponed to September 14.
Sentencing was scheduled to be handed down on September 9 at a sitting of the Pretoria High Court in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court.
During proceedings on September 2, Judge Jay Monyemangene found Khoza guilty of seven counts of rape and six counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
He was acquitted on two counts of attempted rape and the possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Khoza, who lived in Barcelona in Ewatwa, committed these crimes against seven women in a mielie field in Putfontein between January and May last year after approaching his victims, aged between 26 and 42, on social media or through their relatives.
Using the name ‘Given’, Khoza would communicate with his victims by cellphone to make arrangements for their ‘job appointments’.
He would wait for the women at the Benoni taxi rank, Northmead Mall or fast food outlets then board a taxi with them to his ‘employer’ in Putfontein, where he claimed he worked as a gardener.
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