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An Eastern Cape taxi driver was found guilty of raping a 14-year-old female passenger in front of her younger brothers.
The Port Elizabeth Regional Court convicted Mongameli Jojo, 34, on Wednesday.
According to the spokesperson for the National Prosecutor’s Office, Anelisa Ngcakani, on March 24, 2016, at around 2:00 p.m., the victim and his brothers, who were three and four years old at the time, had taken a taxi from the home of his mother to his grandmother, who was also around Port Elizabeth.
“Instead of taking them to his grandmother’s house, Jojo took them to a cemetery where he raped the girl in the vehicle in front of her two little brothers. The little boys cried helplessly during the ordeal,” Ngcakani said.
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Jojo also stole the girl’s slippers and threatened to shoot her, although she did not show a firearm. Then he left them at his grandmother’s house.
The case was postponed until November 26 for the pre-sentence report and the victim’s impact statement.
Jojo has been in custody since his arrest in March 2016.
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