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Media Statement KIMBERLEY – The Northern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Koliswa Otola and her management welcomes the life imprisonment sentence handed down by the Springbok Regional Court to 38-year-old Fenandes Damon following the rape of a 42-year-old mentally challenged female victim in Kommagas in June 2020. The Court heard that the accused and the victim were walking home from a local liquor outlet and the accused diverted her to an unknown rocky area in Kommagas, were she was raped and her money stolen. The victim reported the occurrence to the police. The Court on Friday, 03 May 2024, sentenced Fenandes Damon to life imprisonment for one count of rape and 12 months imprisonment for theft and instructed that his name be recorded in the National Register for Sex Offenders and declared him unfit to possess a firearm. Lieutenant General Otola, applauded the investigating officer Detective Constable MD Cloete from the Springbok Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit (FCS) for the thorough investigative work, and ensuring that justice is served for mentally challenged victims of gender-based violence and femicide. Ends
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