Horrific racist gang rape
RealityofSA | 12.04.2002 01:26
The 14-year old Afrikaner girl who was cruelly raped this week by a gang of five blacks in her parental home in Pretoria, has been traumatised for the rest of her life. This was said by Rev. Barbara Louw of the organisation Inter-Trauma Nexus (ITN) this week.
The organisation provides psychological counselling to the family and to the SA Policemen who also had to receive urgent psychiatric counselling after investigating the crime scene Tuesday. Hundreds of irate South Africans have been flooding the news media ever since with angry accusations that this crime had been a deliberately racist attack to terrorise the entire Afrikaner community.
The child was discharged from a Pretoria hospital after her cruel ordeal, during which she was gang-raped by five men in the bathroom of her parental home.
"It is terrible what happened to this girl. Her virginity was cruelly destroyed and at the age of 14, a person still seeks for one's identity," said rev. Louw. The police yesterday drew up identikit pictures of the five suspects, and these are being released today, said Insp. Gideon Thessner, police spokesman in Pretoria.
Irate callers to the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld said this rape and the attack on this entire Afrikaner family is a cruel, barbaric attack against a family who belongs to a specific group in society. It was a deliberately racist attack," one reader told Beeld.
The five rapists gained access to the house by climbing across a 2-meter high wall and tearing out the burglar bars in a window of the house. The heavily-armed men invaded the house, tied up the mother, father, six-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother with barbed wire in the living room. They then took the 14-year-old Afrikaans girl into the bathroom where they gangraped her.After this, the girl's father was beaten and kicked in his face while still tied up.
The gang then ransacked the family home and fled with the family car, which was later found abandoned in nearby Tembisa.
Thessner said the badly traumatised family has immediate out of the home and moved in with family in Pretoria.
The police unit for child protection and sexual offences is investigating the crime.
The organisation provides psychological counselling to the family and to the SA Policemen who also had to receive urgent psychiatric counselling after investigating the crime scene Tuesday. Hundreds of irate South Africans have been flooding the news media ever since with angry accusations that this crime had been a deliberately racist attack to terrorise the entire Afrikaner community.
The child was discharged from a Pretoria hospital after her cruel ordeal, during which she was gang-raped by five men in the bathroom of her parental home.
"It is terrible what happened to this girl. Her virginity was cruelly destroyed and at the age of 14, a person still seeks for one's identity," said rev. Louw. The police yesterday drew up identikit pictures of the five suspects, and these are being released today, said Insp. Gideon Thessner, police spokesman in Pretoria.
Irate callers to the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld said this rape and the attack on this entire Afrikaner family is a cruel, barbaric attack against a family who belongs to a specific group in society. It was a deliberately racist attack," one reader told Beeld.
The five rapists gained access to the house by climbing across a 2-meter high wall and tearing out the burglar bars in a window of the house. The heavily-armed men invaded the house, tied up the mother, father, six-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother with barbed wire in the living room. They then took the 14-year-old Afrikaans girl into the bathroom where they gangraped her.After this, the girl's father was beaten and kicked in his face while still tied up.
The gang then ransacked the family home and fled with the family car, which was later found abandoned in nearby Tembisa.
Thessner said the badly traumatised family has immediate out of the home and moved in with family in Pretoria.
The police unit for child protection and sexual offences is investigating the crime.
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