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A group of boys playing soccer in a church took a break with a man reading a religious script, unaware that one of them would suffer a life-long trauma.
The National Tax Authority (NPA) accepted Friday the life sentence imposed on the defendant, a 37-year-old man from Springs.
“On April 6, 2017, while the minor and his friends were playing soccer in a church in Duduza, they entered a hut where the accused was reading his religious book and he was reading to them.
“The other children then went to play outside, leaving the minor in the shack with the accused. The accused took the minor to another room and raped him. When the minor came home that afternoon, he told his mother what had happened “.
The mother alerted the police and the suspect was arrested that same night. He has been in custody ever since.
In Springs Regional Court, the NPA said the man had pleaded not guilty to the rape charge, but confessed during questioning.
In defending life imprisonment, the prosecutor, defender Adele Erasmus, emphasized that the traumatic effects of sexual abuse are possibly the most complex and widespread in terms of the effect on a child’s life.
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