Warrant Officer to appear in Court for raping a 13 year old girl in Mamelodi East, Pretoria

A 48 year old Warrant Officer, stationed at Mamelodi East SAPS will appear at the Mamelodi West Magistrate’s Court on 14 May 2013 following his arrest for raping a 13 year old minor.

It is alleged by the complainant (13 year old girl) that on 28 April 2013 at about 17:00 she was at her place of residence when the suspect, who is a sector manager at SAPS Mamelodi East, arrived at her place to collect her. Earlier that day the victim’s guardian had called the CPF members to talk to the complainant for refusing to do any chores in the house. The girl did not respond positively to the CPF members, so they called the sector manager for assistance. The sector manager (suspect) arrived at 17:00 and took the girl in a police vehicle – he gave the victim’s family the impression that the victim was going to be handed over to a female officer. He took her to a KFC and bought her a meal and then he took her to his house where he kept her for the night and raped her. He dropped the victim off at home the next morning.

The victim did not tell anyone due to having been threatened by the suspect. The next evening after 17:00 the suspect again took the girl to his house. As he was preparing to rape the girl, she managed to escape after asking to go to the toilet. The victim reported a case of rape with the assistance of other police officials who had picked her up on the road. The case was reported to the IPID which took over the investigation.

After absconding for about a week, the suspect handed himself in at Brooklyn SAPS. He appeared in court on 07 May 2013 facing a charge of rape and was remanded to 14 May 2013 at Mamelodi Court B at 12:00 for a formal bail application. The IPID will oppose bail.

Upon conducting further investigations it was established that this suspect has two child rape cases pending at Kwamhlanga and Mamelodi East. The victims in the two pending were also minors aged 12 and 8 respectively and he was given bail on both matters.

Issued by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate

For enquiries:
IPID National Spokesman
Moses Dlamini
082 809 1927
mdlamini@ipid.gov.za