Verulam rape case: Anguished father's statement read in court
A Waterloo father has spoken of the pain of learning his young daughter had been raped.
He has detailed this in a victim impact statement submitted to the Durban High Court today in aggravation of sentence - for a serial rapist who spent five years preying on women and girls on the northern outskirts of the city.
Amos Ngobeni was yesterday found guilty of nineteen counts of rape, committed between 2011 and 2016.
Judge Shyam Gyanda also convicted him of other crimes - including kidnapping and housebreaking with intent to rape.
The father of Ngobeni's youngest victim - a little girl, of just seven at the time - says he wanted to die when he found out what had happened.
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He was angry and embarrassed and says he felt like he had failed his child and ended up blaming himself.
He says: "I felt angry in such a way that I even blamed the child's mother for nothing". The man's was but one of a number of victim impact statements handed in to the court today.
Judge Gyanda will peruse them and deliver his ruling tomorrow.
