Police in Melmoth,
KwaZulu-Natal, claimed they could not attend to an attempted rape complaint one
block from their police station because of a lack of transport, according to a report on Wednesday.
The Witness reported that
on Saturday, Mthonjaneni Municipality protection services manager, Derek Horne,
heard the screams of two girls and reported the matter to police.
Local police said they
could not respond to the complaint because there was no police car available.
Horne apparently told the
charge office that an attempted rape was taking place only a block from the
police station, but could get no undertaking from police that they would
investigate.
Horne resolved to help the
girls himself.
“I walked through an open
security gate into the building, heading for the source of the screams and saw
two young girls, I estimate about 12 years and 16 years old. They had been tied
to cement windows, with rope around their hands, and two young men were
attempting to rape them,” Horne was quoted as
saying.
The perpetrators ran off,
and Horne helped the traumatised girls.
Captain Tienkie van Vuuren,
spokesperson for Eshowe police, said an internal investigation would be
launched into the matter.
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