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Kimberley GBVF organisation opposes bail for rape accused─── CASEY-LEE ANTHONY 06:00 Wed, 24 Jul 2024
“The organisation hopes the outcome of the bail hearing will be in favour of the victim, who has been traumatised by these events and left her family in tears.”
The Shaine Griqua Advice and Development Centre in Kimberley will be opposing the bail application of a rape accused in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday (24/7).
The centre has been supporting the victim through group and family counselling with the family, victim and the victim’s children. They have been assisted during all the court appearances as well as with psychosocial support and spiritual care.
“As an organisation we are having a petition online and in hard copy calling for no bail, regardless of the status of the perpetrator – first-time offender or not,” said Director Shaine Griqua.
The accused, who was the victim’s boyfriend for a year, is said to have taken her hostage and raped her for almost two days in a locked house, beaten her to a pulp, had all her hair violently removed and almost killed her with knives.
“The perpetrator allegedly has a long history of abusing his partners and they were all too scared to open cases. He is a known charmer who abuses his partners.
“We call on the justice system to be on the side of the victim and not give bail to the perpetrator.”
The victim after having her hair ripped out. Picture supplied
The organisation told OFM News the victim had been raped repeatedly. The accused allegedly washed her after each incident to get rid of the evidence, and at night would force her to sleep next to him while he held two knives on him.
The day after the perpetrator violently ripped the braids from her head, she was allowed to leave the house and go back to her family. This is when she went to the police station to report the incident.
“She is a mother of three children and the whole family didn’t expect this to happen to her. All of them are traumatised,” said Griqua.
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The organisation hopes the outcome of the bail hearing will be in favour of the victim.
Meanwhile, a man in Upington has been convicted of raping his ex-girlfriend’s mother after breaking into the home, even after the daughter took out a protection order against him.
He was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for rape, two years for house-breaking with the intent to commit a crime, and five years for the contravention of a protection order.
