A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his teenage niece, but the girl's mom wants the charges dropped.
|||Cape Town - A man has been arrested after he allegedly raped his teenage niece. And now the 14-year-old’s Stanford family has been torn apart after her own mother called for the charges to be dropped against her brother.
However, the State is determined to press ahead with the charges against him.
The 35-year-old suspect will appear before the Hermanus Magistrates’ Court again on Friday on a charge of rape.
He first appeared in court last Wednesday when the State opposed his bail plea.
The teenage victim broke her silence to reveal how her ordeal has ripped her family apart.
She rsaid her uncle attacked her last Monday after she asked him to help her to wash the dishes.
“I walked to the room and stood on my mother’s bed to get something from the cupboard when he grabbed me from behind,” the girl told the Daily Voice.
Her mother burst into the room during the alleged attack. But the girl’s relief turned to horror when her mom turned on her.
“I was glad when she came because I thought she was going to help me but she started to scold me and fought with me,” the girl added as tears ran down her cheeks.
Her mother admitted that she hit her daughter, but claimed she only did it to get answers. She also claimed she called the cops to frighten her brother. But she later withdrew the charges because she did not want her brother to go to jail.
“I later withdrew the case because he is sensitive in his head and they said that my daughter is already sexually active,” the mother said.
“We withdrew the case and want him to be freed without him having to apply for bail.”
Now the traumatised girl is threatening suicide because she feels her own mom is siding with her attacker.
“I feel like taking my own life because she chose him over me. I feel the case must continue,” she said.
*This article was published in the Daily Voice