2012-02-08
Thys Henzen, 43, paraplegic, raped by black detainee in Welkom police cells: beaten by cops: night of hell after rough arrest by SAPS. Picture: Mr Henzen was kicked by a police-boot during his rough Volksblad journalist Tom de Wet interviewed the heart-broken Thys Henzen, 43, a paraplegic man who lives in a wheelchair and who told the journalist about his night of hell in a Welkom police cell when he was helpless - and raped.
"I feel dirty, abused, humiliated. What does a man do with the rest of his life after such an ordeal?" he asked with eyes brimming with tears.His ordeal started on 29 January 2012: he was roughly arrested inside his home, brutally assaulted, thrown into the police vehicle despite his physical frailty - and a few hours later the Afrikaner man was forced from his wheelchair and raped with considerable violence in the police cells.
http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Parapleeg-vertel-van-nag-van-hel-20120208
