The Family Violence, Child Protection and the Sexual Offences Unit in Ekurhuleni North, arrested a 19-year-old female for perjury on 31 January.
The teenager had opened a false case of kidnapping and rape, something she later admitted had not happened.
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Ivory Park Police Station communication officer, Captain Bernard Matimulane said the woman, from Tswelopele, had apparently spent three days with her boyfriend and, upon anticipating the parental wrath ahead, she told a clinic clerk she had visited that she had been raped, hoping that her story would only be known to her and the clerk.
“She was referred to the Ivory Park Police Station where she continued to make the same claims of rape. Once she had opened a case, police investigations into the circumstances surrounding her rape commenced. During the investigations it emerged that she is a regular at the place she was alleged to have been raped at,” said Matimulane.
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The woman was confronted by the police with the evidence and only then did she admit to having concocted her story.
Ivory Park station commander, Brigadier David Mbongeni Ngcobo has warned members of the community against opening false cases, as the police have huge, real case loads to investigate. “False cases waste resources unnecessarily and, worse still, reputations are being ruined,” Ngcobo concluded.
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