A man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby and a seven-year-old boy in Ceres.
|||Cape Town - A man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a four-month-old baby and a seven-year-old boy in Ceres, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.
Lt-Col Andre Traut said a 32-year-old man was taken into custody and questioned in Ceres on Monday night.
A task team comprising various police units was created to investigate the rapes.
“We will go to great lengths to ensure that the perpetrator is brought to book,” he said.
Provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said on Monday that the baby had been sleeping in bed with her parents when a man snatched and raped her in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The boy was in the house and raped at the same time.
Lamoer said it was believed that the man had been staying in the house, on a farm, at the time.
“The child is currently at the Red Cross Children's Hospital, where she had reconstructive surgery, and she will stay there for a long time,” Lamoer told reporters on the sidelines of a police memorial service in Kuils River.
“As you can see, there is a sick society outside. Some men can't take the responsibility and we need to make sure this person is arrested.”
Traut clarified that the children were not siblings as previously reported.
Sapa