The Mhluzi Police arrested the man on Saturday after a case of rape was opened by the four-year-old’s mother.

The mother told the Mhluzi Police that she left her daughter in the care of her landlord to go to a hair salon.

When she came back from the hair salon, she saw her daughter standing with the suspect. The woman said she called her daughter and told her to go and sit inside the house, but the four-year-old refused to sit down and told her mother that she was in pain.

After checking her daughter, the woman noticed that she was not wearing underwear.

The four-year-old then told her mother that she had been raped.

Mhluzi Police spokesperson, Thabitha Leshilo, said the suspect made his first court appearance on Monday.

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