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.
Sorry, but I think your disparaging this poster is ridiculous. This thread is VERY pertinent, as you can see by all of the responses. Who the He%% are you to suggest banning someone? I think that YOUR agenda is the one that is suspect.
The ANC is a COMMUNIST organ, Mandela and Mbeki are both COMMUNISTS as well, the rule of law has been suspended by the ANC, the Rand is in free fall, child rape is much more commcon than you know, and all you care about is that Apartheid is gone ?
No, the World Health Org (W.H.O.) injected Africa with AIDS in smallpox vaccine just as they started AIDS in gays by giving them other shots. The globalist intent is to kill people, particularly poor whites, browns, blacks, homosexuals and anyone not fitting their agenda. They manufactured AIDS for that purpose. There was a book on the web about it called "Full Disclosure," but the FDA raided the author's place, closed down his website and he left the country and urged others to do the same.
Doesn't South Africa have nuclear weapons? If there's any group I fear more than the muslims having nukes its this gang.
Sex is NOT treated as a commodity , in S.A., as it is in Holland.
Please do NOT impugned people, whom you know absolutely NOTHING at all about. Nor should anyone take a cretin's word for anything.
The father of lies...who else?
No, the Dutch ( along with the French and Germans, who intermarried ) are Boers / Africaners, and have NOT been driven out of South Africa at all. They still live there ; but, many have left , or are desperately trying to leave. The takeover by Mandela and the ANC has resulted in the destruction of South Africa. No matter what you may think you know abut S.A., you don't. Please do NOT spread your false noninformation.
I'm not exactly sure why you posted this to me, I think you might have the wrong person.
Of course I could tell what Warszaw is right away.
But "false noninformation?"
Please elaborate.
Everything you have said is absolutely correct. The Zulus were and are far more CIVILIZED than the Xhosa ( whom the Zulus used as slaves, BTW ) and actually side with the Boers. Mandela is an Xhosa, as are most of the COMMUNIST thugs of the ANC.
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