Father sentenced 40 years after raping daughter

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An 80-year-old Eastern Cape man has been sentenced by the Mthatha Regional Court for raping his daughter between 1978 and 1984.

At the time, they lived together in the Ngangelizwe Township in Mthatha, while the child’s mother, who has since divorced Bhenge, worked in Durban as a domestic worker.

After giving birth to her son, the court heard that the victim ran away from home and relocated to Gauteng. “In his plea explanation, Bhenge blamed alcohol. He claimed that he committed the rapes while drunk and thought his daughter was one of his ’many girlfriends’ as his wife had left him.”

 

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