Johannesburg - A KwaZulu-Natal man was sentenced by the Vryheid Regional
Court to 18 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal
police said on Friday.
Nkosinathi Nxumalo, 22, was sentenced on Thursday, Captain Thulani Zwane said.
Nxumalo
raped the girl, his neighbour, in September last year while she was on
the way to a shop. He threatened her to not tell anyone. The girl's
mother discovered the crime after she saw the girl was "not walking
properly".
Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Mmammonye Ngobeni welcomed the sentence.
"Our
FCS [Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences] units in
the province of KwaZulu-Natal will continue with their good work and
bring those rapist to book," she said.
Ngobeni encouraged women and children to report crimes to the police.
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