DETECTIVES from Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in KZN ended 2019 on a high note, racking up 10 life sentences and 51 years’ jail time for those found guilty of sexual offences from December 1 to 31.
The victims were aged between one and 90 years.
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Some 356 suspects were arrested and 14 of those – ranging in age from 26 to 52 – were convicted and sentenced.
One, a 34-year-old man, was sentenced to six life terms for raping six children, aged between eight and 13, at KwaMgayi Reserve in the Sawoti policing area.
“The man committed these crimes in 2017. He would go to his relatives’ homes,where he would rape the children at gunpoint and threaten to kill them,” said Saps Provincial spokesman, Captain Nqobile Gwala.
The cases were opened after a neighbour overheard the victims arguing about reporting the ordeal to the elders.
He was sentenced to six life terms for rape and five years’ imprisonment for the possession of the firearm.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khombinkosi Jula applauded the investigators for ensuring that gender-based violence cases were solved and the perpetrators prosecuted.
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