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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