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Nun, 86, is gang-raped and murdered when robbers break in South Africa
The Daily Mail ^ | 21 April 2015 | HELEN MOSS

Posted on 04/21/2015 7:20:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

An 86-year-old nun was reportedly gang-raped before being murdered in her bedroom at a South African missionary.

Gertrud Tiefenbacher's hands had been tied with a typewriter cord and a towel placed over a face, say local police.

Her body was found by other nuns at the Sacred Heart Missionary in Ixopo, a small town 85 miles south-west of Durban.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal are waiting for the results of forensic tests to confirm that Sister Gertrud was sexually assaulted.

They say she was suffocated but they are unsure how many men attacked her. A small sum of money - thought to be in euros - had been stolen from her room.

The victim's friend Betty Firmstone, 85, told South Africa's Daily News: 'I met Sister in 1952 when I started teaching at a school attached to the mission. We worked very closely together. She loved her work with children.

'This really was an act of savagery against a gentle, caring soul.'

Sister Gertrud had lived at the missionary for 60 years after moving to South Africa from her native Austria.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: africa; catholic; elderly; nun; religion; southafrica; thugs
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1 posted on 04/21/2015 7:20:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Damn those Amish !


2 posted on 04/21/2015 7:24:55 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: MinorityRepublican

As bad as apartheid was....


3 posted on 04/21/2015 7:25:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (ANYBODY BUT FRICKING JEB AND HILLARY)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sometimes you just don’t have the words. Now is one of those times for me.

May she rest in peace.


4 posted on 04/21/2015 7:25:50 PM PDT by boycott
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To: MinorityRepublican

The reaction from the White House will be: “the perpetrators were not muslim, nor were they black.”


5 posted on 04/21/2015 7:26:18 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wait. Let me guess: some of Holder’s “people” (using the term very loosely)?


6 posted on 04/21/2015 7:28:05 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue (Remember- allah is the Charles Manson of deities, and mohammed is his Tex Watson. - LysolMotorola)
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I am horrified as everyone is, but my scientific questioning mind always wanders, who would want to rape such an old lady, it doesn't make sense evolution-wise at all. It makes sense if you take evil into account I guess.
7 posted on 04/21/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by dp0622
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Sometimes animals will just act like animals.


8 posted on 04/21/2015 7:29:54 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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I guess it’s that simple...sigh...I cant even think up the punishment needed


9 posted on 04/21/2015 7:32:13 PM PDT by dp0622
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As bad as apartheid was...

A nun was raped and murdered and you talk about how bad apartheid was?

10 posted on 04/21/2015 7:32:41 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dp0622

” ... it doesn’t make sense evolution-wise .... “


We’re dealing with something that is evil and sub-human.


11 posted on 04/21/2015 7:34:39 PM PDT by boycott
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I am horrified as everyone is, but my scientific questioning mind always wanders, who would want to rape such an old lady, it doesn't make sense evolution-wise at all. It makes sense if you take evil into account I guess.

Yeah, if it was about sex alone, this does not make any sense. However, rape is more of a power trip than sex so the age, looks and so on of the victim does not matter. No matter for power or sex, the scum bums that did this should be locked up. Better yet, that poor nun should have had a shotgun or handgun. The perps need to be locked up.
12 posted on 04/21/2015 7:35:06 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (>8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sick and evil. RIP.


13 posted on 04/21/2015 7:36:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Nowhere Man

The perps need to be locked up.

Preferably with each other

that should work out well for them....


14 posted on 04/21/2015 7:37:12 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Nowhere Man

It’s hard to understand the power angle if you’re not a rapist, thank God I cant. But you are right. I have read that a lot.
And they are sub human and evil too,


15 posted on 04/21/2015 7:37:31 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Nowhere Man

That don’t need to be locked up. They need to be buried.


16 posted on 04/21/2015 7:39:45 PM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: dp0622

Definitely evil, very clearly a demonic act.


17 posted on 04/21/2015 7:39:52 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: dp0622

Yeah, I’ll never understand the power part too. I remember studying things like that when I was in college and from what I’ve studied, it is a form of over powering another person, the ultimate form of doing so short of pure murder. Imposing one’s will and control on an unwilling person is pure evil.


18 posted on 04/21/2015 7:41:35 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (>8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: dp0622

I read a theory once that Holder’s people rape elderly white women because they lived in a time when no white woman would have anything to do with a black man.


19 posted on 04/21/2015 7:41:37 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, locking them up together is a good idea. Let them finish themselves off.


20 posted on 04/21/2015 7:42:36 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (>8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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