MAN WHO BEAT AND RAPED TWO-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO 80 YEARS

Western Cape Police have welcomed the sentencing of a man who brutalized

and sexually assaulted his two-year-old son, leading to his murder. 

According to the police’s Christopher Spies, Ashley Louw,and Jean Solomons, 28, was sentenced to over eighty years imprisonment in the high court in Beaufort West last weekend. According to reports, police were notified by Beaufort West Hospital that a toddler, Geonovon Ketan-Lamar Maans, had multiple blunt injuries to the head, trunk, and limbs upon admission to the medical facility.

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Upon further investigation, police later discovered that the victim was brutally assaulted and sexually violated by his father at their residence in Beaufort West, where the boy resided with his father. 

Solomons was subsequently arrested in connection with the toddler’s murder. 

Investigators were also able to link the perpetrator to another unsolved gang-related murder of James Jantjies, in 2016. 

“The probe into the death of James Jantjies, 28, during a shooting in Atlantis on November 1, 2016, also positively linked Solomons to this killing. He was linked through forensic evidence as well as closed-circuit television footage obtained during the lengthy investigation,” said Spies.  

According to Spies, the Solomons’ murder spree started between 2016 and

2020 and included other incidents of assault common and assault with the intent

to commit grievous bodily harm.

Solomons was convicted and sentenced for 10 of the counts against him and acquitted on five other counts.

Done by: Thaakiera Ackerdien