Rape doesn’t just break a child’s body, it breaks its spirit too, and for a 10-year-old girl the ordeal left many scars.
On July 7, a 31-year-old mother received a call from her daughter’s teacher, it was bad tidings.
The teacher explained to the mother that the little girl was struggling to cope with school and it seemed like the child was troubled by something.
The teacher offered to try and talk to the child to see what was bothering her.
The teacher phoned the mother once more and explained that she managed to talk to the child, who told her that she had been raped.
The child told the story of how, when staying with her grandmother in 2015, was raped by her uncle.
The mother spoke with her child and found out that while staying at her grandmother’s house in April 2015, the child was asked to fetch sugar from her uncle’s house.
When she arrived at the house and requested the sugar the uncle took her to a room and raped her.
Once he had had his way with her he gave her the sugar she asked for and gave her the warning that if she ever spoke about it to anyone that he would kill her.
When she returned to the grandmother’s house she told them of the ordeal and was in turn told that she was lying.
The mother, unaware until recently, has since opened a case of rape at the Witbank Police Station.
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