A cop who also serves as a priest has been arrested for the serial rape of the 14-year-old daughter of a family friend in Mbekweni.
|||Cape Town - A police officer who also serves as a priest is under arrest for the serial rape of the 14-year-old daughter of a congregant and family friend in Mbekweni.
He appears in the Paarl Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with multiple counts of rape.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said on Wednesday night that its officers had arrested the warrant officer on Wednesday. Asked to name him, Ipid spokesman Moses Dlamini declined. He also would not identify the church.
Dlamini said last night the 41-year-old policeman was a friend of the girl’s family but had allegedly raped her twice in her home on April 2.
He had also raped her at his home and in a field after he had picked her up in a police vehicle. She was raped on many other occasions, he said.
The girl’s mother found a message from the policeman on her cellphone and reported him to the police on Tuesday.
“The suspect is a priest working with youth at a church the family attends and he is their friend. The victim had reported the rapes to her cousin, but she was afraid to inform her parents.”
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