Port Elizabeth - The trial involving a mentally disabled 13-year-old girl who was allegedly forced into a marriage with an elderly man, hit another snag in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday when the court heard that separate legal representation was needed for one of the accused.
The uncle of the little girl, along with two other persons are facing charges which include human trafficking in persons and concluding a forced marriage for the purposes of exploitation. The girl’s 61-year-old “husband” faces two additional charges of rape. Judge Glen Goosen considered the circumstances but with one of the accused needing new legal representation, said he was more inclined to postpone the matter.
From there, in January 2015, the girl went to live with the 63-year-old woman’s daughter in Bizana, in rural Eastern Cape, where she attended school.According to the indictment, the following year, the 61- year-old man from Greenbushes in Port Elizabeth entered into lobola negotiations with the girl’s uncle and in November 2016 the victim was told she would not return to school and would be married to the elderly man.
Court documents cite that when the teenager resisted the man’s advances he throttled her and forcefully had sex with her.
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