‘Alleged teen sex slave lied’
NORWOOD – A teenager (14) who claimed her aunt sold her as a sex slave, and apparently escaped from her aunt’s home after being locked up and used as a child prostitute, might find herself on the wrong side of the law.
Norwood Police Station spokesperson Sergeant Nurse Sanyane said the police had established that the girl fabricated the whole story and all that she told the police was a lie.
In an article, Aunt sells niece as sex slave, North Eastern Tribune weekending 14 November, a Rustenburg teenager (14) was found by Metro police wondering on the M1 freeway after she claimed she escaped from her aunt, who used her in child prostitution, and became a laughing stock to her schoolmates who teased her as a ‘sex worker’.
At the time, she told the police that her ordeal started last year after the death of her mother. She then moved to her aunt and said on the fifth day after moving, the (aunt) brought six old men into the house and told her they would sleep with her (girl). She said her aunt locked her with the men in a bedroom. She said one of them took down her underwear and forced himself onto her and raped her, breaking her virginity. She alleged that her aunt said nothing.
She said the ordeal became a daily trend where men would come to have sex with her for money for her aunt. However, she said her aunt refused to give her money for school-related matters and told her that she only knew her as a ‘sex worker’. The child claimed that she decided to take a taxi to Johannesburg, although unsure of future plans. Sanyane said after the child was referred to social development, the case was also transferred to Rusternburg Police Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit. Sanyane stated, “The unit established that the girl’s parents are both alive, but not married, and the father lives in Johannesburg. She stays with her mother’s family including the aunt whom she accused of abusing her. However, the aunt is the only bread winner at home and the one who provided her with school fees and uniforms.
“Everything that she told the police was a lie, including her name. She dropped out of school voluntarily. She was never teased by other pupils.” Sanyane said the child had visited her father in Johannesburg. “After the visit, she was given money to go back to Rustenberg but the child decided otherwise and the police might charge her for perjury,” she said.
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