A father sentenced to life in prision for murdering his daughter

Lusanda Bill
14 March 2011

A Cape Town father has been sentenced to life in prision today after he murdered his 13-year-old daughter in 2008.

Rashaad Kruger slit his daughter’s throat in 2008, a month after she witnessed him trying to rape her friend in their house.

Moneeba Kruger body was found by her mother locked in her bedroom.

Nadia Kruger the mother of Moneeba Kruger said after the sentencing that “I’m feeling much better now for the life sentence that he got. I’m looking now forward to a new life for me and I say thank you very much to everybody who was helping me”.

Rashaad Kruger will be serving 12 years for the attempted rape of his daughter’s friend and two years for assaulting her. For the rape of his daughter he has been sentenced to life in prision.

Both the sentences will run concurrently.

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