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.
Actually civilization in the horn of Africa is dead or dying as well. So much for "good intentions"...as usual.
I have no idea why anyone would assume that the Africaners ( who are really a mixture od Dutch , French, and German settlers ) are " DUTCH ", when most of those families have been cictizens of SOUTH AFRICA , far longer than their own families have lived in the USA, and / or when we were just a bunch of English, DUTCH, etc. colonies. I wonder IF they consider themselves Irish, English, German, French, Polish, Czech, Russian, Scotch , Japanese, or perhaps African, instead of AMERICAN . If they are Americans, then WHY arent the descendents of settlers , in South Africa, South African ?
I am confused by the enmity and hatred shown peoples who have NEVER been enemies of the USA , and have led blameless lives.
Poltical Correctness, Liberalism, Socialism, Feminism, Communism, and various other forms of wrong-headed 'Progressive Thought'?
You assume these crazy bastards are HUMAN?
Not at all, they're every bit as much an animal as the four legged ones in Africa.
Semper Fi
PS - I wish no one any harm; I'm just kind of drunk and ramblimg here. Peace! Everyone!
The failure to combat AIDS in Africa permeates every level of African society.
How can African nations stop the spread of AIDS when their own leaders and their own witchdoctors, sorry, “traditional healers”, tell them that HIV does not cause AIDS and having sex with virgins will cure you of AIDS?
The white man's burden has been relieved - by force.
Whites have been driven out of Africa - or murdered in place - by blacks. Africa will become whatever the Africans will make of it.. Hell on earth.
Semper Fi
Sad, isn't it. Many educated South African people saw this coming years ago, but there was a problem getting their money out of the country. They suffered huge losses.
As for AIDS, a physician friend of mine spent months in South Africa in the 80s writing and talking everywhere about the coming AIDS nightmare, but apparently not enough people, black or white, wanted to believe her.
Hehe, then you won't mind being infected w/it right? What a bonehead.
There are over a million Americans who were born 'infected' with it (it's a retro virus that is usually only passed from mother to child) and most of them are in vibrant health, and will continue to be until the witch doctors get them to take AZT, which will quickly kill them (BONEHEAD).
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