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.
Why the hell should it be pulled? The more we know about Nelson Mandela's post-Apartheid paradise, the better.
| Warszawa | reinforcing Polish stereotypes since November 2nd, 2001 |
Too quick! HARD, PROLONGED LABOR. Keep 'em on the verge of despair. Years of forced labor, all proceeds to help overcome this cancer. I know I'm spoutin' off, but I'm so pissed I can spit nails.
We should, as a country, come down hard on them commie bast*rds. Someone mentioned O'Reilley. He should know about this and get those Demonrat S.African sympathizers to fess up to these attrocities.
Don't worry about it. I had typed something much worse when I looked up and saw that.
A two-seat Cessna went down in a Warsaw cemetary the other day... Rescue workers have recovered 354 bodies so far, and more are expected as digging continues.
Almost, and things have gone downhill since. Some are still trying to stay but the white farmers in particular are being murdered by the blacks and the farms burned. Anyone interested in a first hand account should read the Aida Parker Newsletter. There is also a Rev. Cain over there who does a good job reporting what is really going on.
AB
No Sh*t! I didn't know that, but am not surprised. So much for the sanity of their liberal sexual behavior. Perverted and twisted.
Maybe you should get your facts straight, before you embarrass yourself even further. The article states that the girl was from the former Venda, which was an African ``homeland''. Thus, she (and the perps) were likely Black Africans.
I have extended family in Rape Town, and can tell you that it is not Boers or British Africans committing these acts. My family there is Asian (i.e., from India) and were happy at the fall of Apartheid. Things have gotten so bad that they are considering moving to the U.K.. One of them is an elderly woman, and she fears leaving the house for precisely this reason.
The problem here is that the ANC is seen as infallable in the West, due to the fact that it was the primary opponent of White rule. If it were up to me, the whole country would be given over to the Zulus, who at least had civic institutions and respect for the rule of law prior to White rule. The Xhosa-minority government has been a complete failure, and this has been demonstrated in excruciating detail over the last then years.
Well, we helped throw the previous government out and institute the present one - all in deference to our Liberal Shibboleths. So, in some sense we bear partial responsibility for the awful result. What we can do about it now is another matter. The county is well on it's way to being an unliveable horror.
We need to take a strong lesson from this. This is the result of Triumphant Liberalism; it brings suffering and death in it's wake - no less than the Communists did. If Liberalism triumphs in this country, the results will be the same.
I am a black American who doesn't fool myself 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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.