The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday hear a case involving a woman who is taking on the police over their alleged failure to properly search for her when she was missing or to find her rapists.In December 2010, a woman was assaulted, dragged into bushes, tied up, blindfolded and raped, apparently by more than one man, for more than 15 hours.
She launched a civil case in the high court, in which she hoped police would be held accountable for failing to find her during her ordeal. The woman, known as Ms K in court papers, claims that the police wrongfully and negligently breached their duty to investigate her allegation that she had been abducted, held hostage and gang-raped.
She was assaulted and dragged into the bushes, where she was blindfolded and raped repeatedly for 15 hours, until the early hours of the next morning. She believes she was raped by more than one person.Ms K had been reported missing by her family at 7pm. There were four police searches for her near the beach during the evening of December 9 and the early hours of December 10, after her car had been found broken into and its contents stolen.
The high court held that the prolonged rape and assault which the applicant experienced as a result of the shoddy investigation contributed towards the trauma she later suffered.
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