Posted on 11/02/2001 6:43:26 AM PST by SocialMeltdown
The nine-month-old baby girl from Kimberley in the Northern Cape who survived a gang rape has undergone a full hysterectomy and will require further surgery to repair intestinal damage, a hospital spokesperson said on Friday.
The Louisville baby was raped, allegedly by six Upington men last weekend after she was left unattended by her 16-year-old mother.
"Psychologically we do not know what the impact of her ordeal will be, but she is smiling at all the attention she is getting from all the hospital personnel. She had undergone a full hysterectomy and she suffered extensive damage to her colon and anus as well.
"There will be several more operations to repair her intestines," the spokeswoman said.
The six men, aged between 22 and 66, appeared in the Kimberley magistrate's court on charges of rape and indecent assault on Monday.
Kimberley police are still trying to confirm the rape of a three-year-old girl, allegedly by her grandfather, police Inspector Chantel Manuel said on Friday.
The girl was also admitted to the hospital earlier this week and was expected to undergo surgery on Monday.
In the eastern Free State two men from Tweeling appeared in court on Thursday after allegedly raping their 14-month-old niece on Tuesday. The girl also underwent surgery to repair internal damage and is recovering at home.
On Friday police in the Northern Province reported that a four-year-old girl from the former Venda had died of injuries she sustained four months ago when she was raped, allegedly by her 35-year-old father, at her home at Tshirolwe.
She died in the Mankweng Hospital near Pietersburg on Wednesday, Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said.
The man is to appear in court on December 28 on a charge of rape and murder.
Meanwhile, the African National Congress Women's League and the ANC Women's Caucus on Friday called on the country's courts to implement a minimum sentence which provided life sentences for men who raped children and babies knowing they (the men) were HIV-positive.
ANC caucus chairperson Lulu Xingwana said the superstition that HIV/Aids could be cured by raping babies, children and virgins was an "ignorant, unfounded and perverse belief".
"It is horrifying to learn that adult family members including fathers are amongst those alleged to have committee these atrocities ...mostly the alleged rapes are committed by fathers, brothers, sons, grandfathers and uncles whom they look to for care and protection."
She said these atrocities were linked to the abuse of alcohol and drugs, beliefs that women were sub-human and to superstitions surrounding HIV/Aids.
Police earlier this week said that in the 18 months since January 2000 almost 32 000 reports of child rape and sexual attacks on children under the age of 18 occurred countrywide.
Hopefully, America will soon be returned to the American Indians. I'm sure America would profit from that state of affairs avery bit as much as the Africaners have.... and then people wonder why America is hated - perhaps they just haven't been paying attention.
You're the one that needs to read posts more carefully. I was responding to YOUR statement, not his. Just because the Dutch can't be blamed for this incident or the atmosphere that encourages it doesn't mean the framers of apartheid weren't slime.
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Incorrect use of the term 'Men'.
Please, let have those vermin for a couple of weeks.....I've got some wonderful new ideas with Glass Rods and Bamboo Shoots that I'd like to try out.....
There is no AIDS epidemic in Africa, or anywhere else. - Epidemics are caused by transmission of pathogens, not by destruction of the immune system from the extreme use of drugs.
There are millions of people in Africa who are HIV positive, but they are not ill, or dying. In Africa, as everywhere else, people do die of communicable diseases when they compromise their immune systems through poor diet, drug use, or lack of sanitation. - This is not AIDS.
Here in the U.S. 'AIDS' patients usually die of one of two causes:
Communicable diseases contracted due to the above causes, or
The Toxic Effect of drugs like AZT, which are prescribed solely to enrich the pharmaceutical giants.
Statistical evidence indicates that in the U.S. about 1 in every 150 people is HIV positive, but few of them are ill in any way. - HIV is a harmless virus until you allow the AMA witches to prescribe AZT, DDI, or DDC, which are all deadly poisons that act by terminating the DNA string in ALL dividing cells in the body of the patient. - This is particularly sad because the presence of antibodies to a virus is proof that the immune system has killed the virus.
Read "Inventing the AIDS Virus" by Peter Duesburg to learn about this massive scam that is costing thousands their lives, and wasting billions of dollars of public funds each year.
You owe it to yourself to know the truth.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
In 5-10 years it'll be just another third-world cesspool except with slightly better roads.
I'm just glad the previous owners had the good sense to dismantle the nuclear weapons they were widely believed to have developed.
And the Africans are now in SOOOO much better stead now that the Dutch
"slime" have moved on. You proudly announce that you are black, and that pleases me because
you obviously are conservative enough to enjoy FR. But tell me, please,
how long did you live under the regime of the Dutch "slime?"
Uh, those aren't men, nor animals, but much worse.
No one dies of AIDS. They die of the diseases which overwhelm their failing immune system which is the result of the AIDS infection.
Thank you for the semantic correction.
This story is not, however, splitting hairs.
These men are raping children because they believe it "cures" them of AIDS.
We can get into many other tangents regarding AIDS but I think this article makes it clear what the problem is; men raping children to "cure" AIDS.
See post # 7 above
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