Bluff rape case: Accused wants to be considered for correctional supervision
A Bluff man who's confessed to raping a six-year-old girl, and to thousands of counts of child pornography-related charges, doesn't want to do jail time.
Forty-nine-year-old, Wayne Parkes and two others were arrested in 2016, after one of them visited a website that was being monitored by the US's Department of Homeland Security.
Parkes' home was raided and a cache of illicit images - including some of a neighbour's child, whom it later emerged he'd raped was found.
Parkes has already pleaded guilty.
He appeared before the Durban Magistrate's Court today.
Parkes was expected to be sentenced today but his lawyer's asked for an adjournment.
He is hoping to get out of doing jail time and wants a report - assessing his suitability as a candidate for correctional supervision - compiled and submitted to the court.
Apparently the probation officer did try to go and interview Parkes in Westville Prison but he couldn't be located.
So the magistrate's granted an adjournment until next month and instructed Parkes' attorney to help facilitate the interview.