Overview
- Police arrested a 54-year-old in Lebowakgomo after four children, ages 7 to 9, were allegedly raped inside his home on Thursday.
- SAPS investigators say he took two children into the house, then the other two, and later threatened them not to tell their parents.
- A grandmother noticed unusual behavior in one child and, after questioning, the families reported the assault to police.
- The Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit made the arrest, and the man is due in the Lebowakgomo Magistrate’s Court on Monday on four rape counts.
- Provincial police chief Thembi Hadebe condemned the alleged crimes, and official data noted 536 statutory-rape reports in the latest 10-month period with few prosecutions and widespread under-reporting.