Nicholas Ninow is not a paedophile: Grandmother
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
Convicted child rapist, Nicholas Ninow's grandmother, has given an emotional testimony in the North Gauteng High Court saying the 21-year-old is not a paedophile.
Ninow has admitted to raping a seven-year-old girl at a Pretoria restaurant in September last year.
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Pauline Gericke testified in mitigation of sentence, and told the court her grandson would never hurt a child.
"I believe that, the fact that he had stopped his psychiatric medication three weeks before [the incident]"
"The fact that he had been drinking and bingeing and drugging for three days, must have had some affect on his psychological state of mind, because Nicholas is not someone who would just hurt a child," she said.
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Gericke broke down as she apologised to the 7-year-old survivor and her family in court.
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