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Media Statement
KIMBERLEY – The Northern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Koliswa Otola and her management applauded the Galeshewe Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit for securing the 15 years prison sentence, handed down by the Barkley West Regional Court to 42-year-old Molaodi Michael Manone, following the rape of a 19-year-old female victim in Barkley West, on Sunday ,14 July 2019. The Court heard that on the said day, a security officer who was on duty at the Professor ZK Mathews Hospital in Barkley West, caught two patients engaging in sexual acts in one of the hospital toilets and reported them to the nursing staff. It was then established that the accused who was admitted in the hospital for a stab wound took advantage of a patient with a mental disability and raped her. Due to the victim’s mental and psychological state, the case had to be postponed several times to assess her mental state of being able to give testimony in the trial. After several consultations, the victim could ultimately testify and the Court found the accused guilty and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment for rape 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, commended the investigating officer, Detective Warrant Officer Tanya Serfontein in collaboration with Mental Health institution for the thorough investigative work of ensuring that justice is served for the victim. Ends
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