Graphic details of how a 17-year-old girl died in an orgy of violence was recounted in a Cape Town court.
|||Cape Town - A court has heard in graphic detail how a 17-year-old girl died in an orgy of violence.
On Monday Tygerberg forensic pathologist Dr Elsie Burger told the Blue Downs Magistrates’ Court that Cytheria Rex was stabbed at least 39 times with a knife and a screw-driver.
The different shapes of Cytheria’s wounds suggest the Kraaifontein teen had been stabbed with more than one object.
Burger told the court Cytheria was stabbed in her arms, breast, chest, back and also sustained wounds to her heart.
Virgil Sass, 19, Oswill Grootboom, 20, Warrant Robertson, 20, Imeraan Hendricks, 20, Rhonwen Rhode, 20, Keenan Lewis,20, and 21-year-old Lee Cloete all face charges of rape and murder for Cytheria’s February 2009 slaying.
Cytheria’s mutilated body was discovered after it had been placed in a wheelie-bin and dumped on a Kraaifontein field.
Burger said there were also signs of sexual penetration. A thick grey-white fluid was found in Cytheria’s vagina.
But the doctor could not confirm if it was semen. “[The grey fluid] could be discharge from a vaginal infection,” Burger told the court. “It could also be semen as a result of penetration.”
Cytheria’s father Keith Rex tells the Daily Voice that it was very difficult for him to hear how many times his daughter was stabbed.
“I knew she was stabbed a lot but I did not know about the stab wound to the heart,” the grieving dad explains.
“That could have been what caused her death.”
Daily Voice