Girl born out of rape, gets raped by the same man, her father

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The NPA in Western Cape has welcomed a heavy sentence handed to a 59 years old man who was found guilty for raping impregnating his 13 years old daughter. Oudtshoorn Regional Court was shocked to hear that the 13 years old victim was also born out rape when the same man who raped her mother when she was 16 years old.

It is said that he was found d guilty on the matter but was acquitted when he appealed. Growing up, the 13 years old young girl was living with her mother and step-father. She moved in with her father and his wife not long after the mother was allegedly asked by a pastor to forgive the rapist because he has repented.

The young girl moved in with the rapist father and his wife following an agreement with her mother after forgiving him and believing that he has changed. She would only visit her mother on weekends. It was revealed that the rapist father had been raping the young girl for over two years and ended up impregnating her.

“Over two years, he sexually assaulted her by indecently touching her and raping her multiple times. She got pregnant and returned home to stay with her mother. She had a few emotional outbursts at home and informed her aunt and mother about what the accused did to her.”

“A case was registered against the accused, and a doctor confirmed that she was pregnant. She told her mother that the accused impregnated her.”

“The victim’s mother testified that they instructed the hospital to terminate the pregnancy. She expressed frustration as she felt that the justice system had failed her when the high court acquitted the accused of her rape. She felt that if the high court did not set aside the accused’s rape conviction, he would not have raped her daughter.”

Eric Ntabazilia from the NPA also said that the now convicted father got caught after attempting to waste the court time on several occasions. Last year, he indicated his intention to plead guilty, and on the day he was supposed to tender his plea, he terminated the services of his legal aid attorney.

The case was postponed for a new attorney, and on the court day, he re- hired the same legal aid attorney.He then proposed to enter into a plea and sentencing agreement with the State, where he tendered a guilty plea on the rape charge, claiming that the victim consented to the rape. The State rejected his proposed plea and sentencing agreement as her version was that she did not consent to her rape.

The accused then amended his plea and sentencing agreement, and the State accepted it, but he turned it down when the State insisted that the only appropriate sentence was 25 years of direct imprisonment on the rape charge.

The matter was postponed for trial, and the State again prepared the victim, through Court Preparation Officer Helene Lucas, to testify against the accused.It was only on January 29th, 2026 when the father pleaded guilty to the matter.

The matter stood down, and his attorney informed the State that the accused wanted to plead guilty and admit that he indeed raped the victim, but it only happened once. The State rejected the watered-down guilty plea, and the defence corrected the plea wherein he admitted that the rapes happened over a period of two years and not once.

The defence attempted to negotiate its way back to the initial sentence of 25 years’ direct imprisonment that was offered during the plea and sentencing negotiations. The State rejected the request.

The court heard that he would wait for his wife to go to work and take advantage of the minor victim. She was 13 years old when he started to rape her and raped her many times over a period of two years. Worse is the fact that he raped and impregnated the victim, who is his own child. The accused has not shown true remorse. He has self-regret now that he has been caught out.

The court agreed with the State and sentenced the accused to 10 years direct imprisonment for sexual violation, life imprisonment for rape and 20 years direct imprisonment for incest.

It ordered the 10 years direct imprisonment for sexual violation to run concurrently with the life imprisonment, but the 20 years direct imprisonment for incest to run separately from the life imprisonment. The accused is effectively sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years’ imprisonment.