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| 7yr-old assaulted, set alight |
| 2006-11-08 |
| Another feel-good story from SA. Cape Town - A man has been arrested for indecently assaulting a seven-year-old girl and then setting her alight, Cape Town police said on Tuesday. Captain Elliot Sinyangana said the crime happened in Blue Downs on Saturday night and police had been searching for the 28-year-old since then. "The man - who is close to the girl's family - allegedly took the girl to an open veld where he assaulted her and set her alight," said Sinyangana. The child was taken to a local hospital where she was said to be in a critical condition. Following a tip-off, police arrested the man in the Blackheath area around 07:00 on Tuesday. He was expected to appear in court soon, said Sinyangana. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #8 xblanke - I hear you! Sorry about your loss. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-11-08 23:34 |
| #7 Thanks for the thoughts guys. This is one of my hot-button issues (along with polio vaccination) based on family history. Speaking of families: please tell your families how much you love them, even if they're staunch liberal Dems like mine. I'm about to return home from my mother's funeral - about the only thing could bring all six of us far-flung kids together in one place. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-11-08 23:28 |
| #6 Likewise, xbalanke , please accept my sympathies. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-08 22:06 |
| #5 My sympathies to your sister, xbalanke. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-11-08 19:54 |
| #4 What do you expect from a culture which believes that screwing an infant can cure AIDS? Unfortunately, that's not new or limited to Africa. This is a horrible perversion that's existed in South Asia and Africa for ages. My sister was raped in India back in 1961 by a monster who had the clap. She's been paying for it every day since. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-11-08 16:57 |
| #3 What do you expect from a culture which believes that screwing an infant can cure AIDS? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-08 15:09 |
| #2 assaulting I believe the word is "rape". |
| Posted by: anon 2006-11-08 14:38 |
| #1 I'm sure he can be rehabilitated. And he should live next to the judge's house after his rehabilitation, too. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-11-08 05:54 |