Cop appears for statutory rape
5 September 2013 11:04
A police constable accused
of statutory rape was expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrates’
Court, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has said.
The constable from Grassy
Park Police Station, in the Western Cape, was arrested on Tuesday.
“It is alleged the police
official and the victim (14-years-old) have been having sexual intercourse
between July and August 2013 at the policeman’s house, which is in the same
street as the victim’s home,” Ipid spokesperson Moses Dlamini said in a
statement.
The girl’s friend told her
mother.
Dlamini said each of the
incidents had happened when he was off duty.
Meanwhile, in a separate
incident, a constable based at Macassar Police Station was arrested after being
accused of raping a 23-year-old woman in police cells on July 21.
She had been arrested and
detained for housebreaking and theft.
“It is alleged that the
victim had asked for toilet paper and it had been given by the suspect, who
went back to her cell and allegedly raped the victim,” he said.
Ipid was notified the same
day after she opened a case at the police station. It started investigating but
the policeman went off duty and disappeared for a while.
He was tracked down and
arrested yesterday and was due to appear in the Somerset West Magistrates’
Court soon.
Ipid is an oversight body
which investigates allegations of crime levelled against police officers.
- Sapa
