Man jailed for raping child

The man, John Oosthuizen, raped and assaulted a 14-year-old girl. He was arrested for raping the girl for nearly seven months while renting a backroom at the victim’s home.

Police spokesperson Captain Xoli Mbele said Oosthuizen raped and sexually assaulted the teenager at her home in Moffatview between January and July 2015.

“The first incident occurred when the girl’s mother had left her at home. On numerous occasions Oosthuizen would kiss, touch the girl’s body and rape her,” said Mbele.

Oosthuizen threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

“On 11 July 2015 the victim’s mother, who was in the kitchen at the time, heard her daughter screaming, ‘stop touching me, I will tell my mother’. After that she spoke to her daughter, who revealed what Oosthuizen had been doing to her for the past seven months. She then reported it to the police,” he said.

Mbele said the man went into hiding until he received a call from the police, asking him to come to the police station. “He thought he was being called for something else, went to the station and was arrested on 15 February 2016.”

Mbele added that his name will be registered in the national register of sexual offenders.