This after the trio allegedly sexually abused a grade 12 boy early this month.The news was pronounced by the MEC for Education, Tate Makgoe, on his Twitter page account on Wednesday afternoon, 14 August 2019.

Following the incident, the 18-year-old boy opened a sexual assault case against the trio for the incident which they recordedwhile in a hostel room. OFM News police spokesperson, Martin Xuma, said the accused were thereafter taken into custody and questioned before appearing in the Local Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 6 August, and subsequently warned to reappear on 29 August.

On Monday the department was set to meet with the parents of the victim as well as the perpetrators to discuss an amicable solution. Ndaba told OFM News that the department has since deployed social workers to counsel the victim. 

The incident comes more than a year after four teenage boys, also from Thaba’Nchu, allegedly raped a 13-year-old classmate at Namanyane Primary School.  Ndaba, said the boys had been suspended numerous times for ill-behaviour and bullying prior to the incident.

OFM News