The Durban Regional
Court convicted and sentenced to 18-years in
jail a 53-year-old man for raping a 10-year-old girl in 2012.
It is believed that the girl was raped
several times by her mother’s boyfriend but the matter was not reported to the
police.
KwaZulu Natal Provincial Commissioner
Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni said victims of rape need not to be afraid
of reporting such crimes.
Police Spokesperson Captain Thulani Zwane
said it is alleged that the girl when she told her mother about the rape she
was told not to talk about it again and eventually in 2013 the little girl told
her older sister and the sister reported the matter to the police.
Zwane said the investigation by the police
led to the arrest of the man.