Richards Bay man guilty of sexual assault of minors
The girls were aged 10 and 11 at the time of the incidents, which occurred between January and August 2015.
THE Empangeni Regional Court sentenced a 35-year-old Richards Bay man to 12 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting two minors.
The girls were aged 10 and 11 at the time of the incidents, which occurred between January and August 2015.
In the first incident, the man assaulted his girlfriend’s daughter.
Following a dispute between the couple, the accused went to the victim’s bedroom while her mother slept, climbed on the bed and told her that ‘he was going to spoil her’.
It emerged in court that he had touched and kissed her.
In the second incident, the man assaulted his girlfriend’s niece at a youth church function.
The assault, graphically described to the court, occurred while the victim and other children slept on the mattresses in a living room, and was not reported for weeks.
A witness testified before the court that she had seen him performing sexual acts with the young girl.
The man was arrested in August 2015 after cases were opened with the SAPS and transferred to the Empangeni FCS for investigation.
