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Gran raped by 'animal'
An another feel good story from beautiful south africa; HT African crisis.Grahamstown - A hospital security guard behaved like an "animal" in raping and assaulting an elderly woman in front of her grandson, said Judge Elna Revelas in Grahamstown High Court on Monday. She handed down a 20-year sentence on Zingisile Payi, 24, for the rape, committed last year, reported Grocott's Mail. Revelas said she almost sentenced him to life in jail, but found it mitigating that he was a young, first offender who was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crime, and that his victim had only internal bleeding. Oh, well, it's no big deal then; I say, let this young man go free! She found it aggravating that he had humiliated and violated the dignity of his 64-year-old victim in her own home by raping her twice in front of her grandchild, then "casually" bragging that he was her husband. The woman had given Payi - a security guard at Maclear Hospital, near Mthatha - a place to stay for the night when he arrived at her house pretending to be a friend of her son. He assaulted her, then held her at knifepoint while raping her, threatening to shoot her if she screamed. Revelas said the woman must have been traumatised when she ran out of her house naked in the early hours of the morning to get help. Although the judge said Payi deserved to be punished for his actions, she hoped he would be Rehabilitated™ in prison. "You will have time to think about these things in prison. "You also will have an opportunity to study, get life skills and get involved in religious activities," she told him. Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-06-06 |
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