The 26-year-old man who was allegedly raped by a 46 year-old suffered severe injuries including swollen testicles which had landed him in hospital.
The man’s family claim he has a mental illness and had previously been sexually attacked, allegedly by the same woman.
The man’s sister, who cannot be named to protect the alleged rape victim’s identity, told Sowetan yesterday in Byabyamela village near Tzaneen in Limpopo, that his brother’s swollen scrotum and strange behaviour led to him confessing his ordeal. The man also
said the alleged sexual abuse at the hands of the suspect had happened
“more than once”.
“It was strange to see him in a sickly state sometime in December. He appeared shocked, couldn’t eat or go to the toilet.
“He started vomiting, his stomach and scrotum were abnormally swollen and he was unable to urinate,” the sister said.
“At first we thought he must have been poisoned. We then decided to force him to tell us what was wrong. That’s when he told us that someone had squeezed his testicles.”
The man was then taken to a clinic which in turn referred him to a hospital in Polokwane as it was feared that his condition was a matter of life and death, the sister said.
“We questioned him further as we suspected that he might have had sex with a woman who had just aborted her pregnancy.
“He confessed that he had been forced to have sex with a woman from our neighbourhood.
“He told us that no condom was used and that he was promised a gardening job by the same woman who had invited him into her house before offering him a jar of mageu.”
The sister said her brother said the door was locked once they were inside.
“He remembers being stripped naked and made to lie on his back as the woman mounted him.” That wasn’t the first time, the sister alleged.
“We also discovered that last year the same woman asked him to escort her to nearby bushes as she wasscared to fetch firewood alone. They went together and she ended up forcing him to strip naked before having unprotected sex with him,” the sister said.
Police spokesman Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said the woman was arrested on Tuesday and had appeared in the Bolobedu Magistrate’s Court yesterday where she faced a charge of rape. Ngoepe said a kidnap charge was likely to be added to the rape charge.
The woman was granted R1000 bail and will reappear in court on February 9. – Sowetan