Life behind bars for Doornpoort couple who raped own children
A Doornpoort couple has been handed life sentences by the Pretoria North Regional Court for the rape and abuse of their own children.
A 39-year-old man and 33-year-old woman were convicted of multiple disturbing crimes, including rape, sexual assault, sexual grooming and child neglect.
“These sexual abuse offences were committed on their own children, a five-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, in 2014,” says the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Lumka Mahanjana.
She says the children were found at a near-by park, looking dirty, scared and hungry in August 2014.
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“The CPF took them to the police station where they told the police about where their home was. Upon arrival the police found drugs and the couple was arrested for child neglect and possession of drugs.
“Other charges relating to rape and sexual offences were added later after the children revealed further information of what had happened to them whilst placed at place of safety.”
