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.
Probably not you either, but what's your point?
The reason that we're free of the virus is attributable to the fact that retro viruses are usually only transmitted from mother to child (in the womb) making it unlikely that most of us will ever be infected.
AIDS is another story all together, it is the result of the drug culture, which is 75% or more homosexual.
Also one of the highest violent crime rates. Go figure.
Earth to Sarah Brady ... Sarah Brady, come in please ...
There is a big difference between a rational argument based in fact and making things up, which I believe you are now doing. Do you have any sources?
I'm not trying to hijack your thread; you injected support of the AIDS fallacy in your comment #1
The reason for the child-rape is that these perpetrators are ANIMALS, not that they believe that they are going to be 'cured'
Child rape is not unique to Africa, nor is it limited to those who have destroyed their immune systems. - - There are pedo's that have lived into their 90's here in the U.S. and have done equally gross and evil deeds, and did not die of AIDS. This is not an African thing, but a part of the basic sinful nature of mankind.
Do you believe in Science?
Do you believe in Statistics?
Have you ever heard of Koch's Postulates?
Read Duesberg's book and your eyes will be torn open by the shear force of the FACTS, and SCIENCE.
Go to Amazon, or Barnes and Noble and read the reviews that have been posted by readers before you shoot your mouth off here.
Clearly, you either did not read the original article or you don't understand what you are reading.
Either way, I can't help you because, as I said, you have an "AIDS is not AIDS" agenda.
Believe me, you're not telling me anything I haven't read about for years now.
At least to you and others like you, no one is dying of anything.
You are free to believe what you choose but please take it to your own thread.
keep this alive
I am sending this to O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Drew Cary, Bonnie Raitt, president@whitehouse.gov, my senators, my representative, Jesse Jackson, Bill Gates and anyone else that I can think of that might be able to mobilize some effort to change this horrific pattern of child abuse in South Africa.
Maybe if everyone on this thread sends this article to anyone that they can think of with monetary or political clout we will get enough people interested to make a difference.
For those of us without such resources, your prayers are a very powerful weapon.
How about attempted murder? Raise the stakes and turn up the heat to boiling on these maggots.
Aw screw it. Just cap 'em.
And who the h**l are you to tell me not to shoot my mouth off, anyway?
Blaming whitey for the sins of native Africans? What's with you?
You need to help yourself
My only agenda is truth. - I read the article, and it reaches a false conclusion that denies one of the basic realities of the human race. - We are all born evil, and have no hope without Christ.
The reason for the rapes is not AIDS. Child rape, and ritual child murder have happened as long as we have lived on this planet, and it isn't limited to any particular place. This isn't "social meltdown," it's Spiritual Vacuum.
BTW, give up trying to control comments on 'your' thread.
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.Sheesh .. what a sick country. But I imagine this occurs elsewhere as well. I would propose the death penalty for HIV infected men, and life for all others.
Nuff with the panty-wasted justice, they are messing with the future generation who will have these scars with them forever.
SocialMeltdown:I don’t know how much you know about post-apartheid South Africa but things are no better if not worse for most Black South Africans.
OK, I am starting to get ticked now.
I thought Freepers could flippin' read, but it's obvious neither one of you can. As I said in my previous post (Note to the person reading this post out loud for SM and EA: Raise your voice and articulate clearly the paragraph in bold):
I said that, and I meant it, and if you bypass that sentence and defend the Dutch treatment of the native Africans as if I said anything even closely resembling "the Africans are now in SOOOO much better stead now" or suggested that SA wasn't more stable under a racist, fascist regime, you either have a problem with reading perception or something worse -- and as Joe Bob Briggs used to say, "if you know what I mean and I believe you do."
I am a black American who doesn't fool [him]self into believing that the native Africans running the country now are anything but bloodthirsty tyrants. However, if you want to believe that the incompetence and misdeeds of the current leadership excuses the tyranny of the Dutch over the centuries, you've got a problem.
I have no affection whatsoever for either of the Mandelas, Rev. Tutu, Mbeki, Mugabe, or any of the other African jackasses in that region, and I have been on the record here at FR for YEARS regarding the likes of them. That doesn't mean that I embrace Cecil Rhodes or Paul Kruger or any other ruler that subjugates the masses rather than take action to uplift them. That's what happens all over the third world today, and the fact that Americans have rejected that path is what makes this country superior.
Yes! This should be reposted as breaking news. It's basically invisible now.
Let's bump it up to breaking news.
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