Bluff child rapist sentenced to life behind bars
A Bluff man has been jailed for life after confessing to raping a 6-year-old girl and to thousands of counts of child pornography-related charges.
Wayne Parkes was one of three men arrested in 2016 following a tip-off from the US Department of Homeland Security.
In handing down sentence, Magistrate Karen Moopenar said she found it very disturbing that, as per the social worker's report, Parkes had a preference for child pornography.
She said society needed to be protected from him.
His home, south of Durban, was then raided and illicit images, including some of a child who it later emerged that he had raped, were found.
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Parkes was sentenced in the Durban Magistrate's Court today.In handing down sentence, Magistrate Karen Moopenar said she found it very disturbing that, as per the social worker's report, Parkes had a preference for child pornography.
She said society needed to be protected from him.
Moopenar emphasised the fact that the child Parkes had raped was only 6-years-old at the time and that she was now traumatised, could not trust anyone and sometimes refused to go to school.
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She sentenced Parkes to two life sentences, plus and additional 10 years in prison - all of which will run concurrently.His name will also be added to the sexual offenders list.