Two black SA police officers s/c Mphikeledi Alfred
Mahlanga and w/o Amos Chris Masilela charged for helping rapist escape
09:15 Aug 13 2012 Pretoria North
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girl was found nearly dead: the Pretoria University student had been stabbed 23
times. She was stabbed so fiercely that one of the knife-points had snapped off
inside her skull, doctors said.
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On Monday August 13 20122 SAPS student constanble Mphikeledi Alfred Mahlanga 39
& warrant officer Amos Chris Masilela 48 appeared in the Pretoria North
Regional Court on charges of helping the alleged rapist of this student escape
on Friday-night. Beeld newspaper writes that the two police members apparently
took the accused man to Dr George Mukhari hospital in Ga-Rankuwa in northern
Pretoria without handcuffs or shackles after he "complained of feeling
ill". He then escaped through a toilet window. According to the charge
sheet, the police officials were arrested that same day and later released on a
warning. The matter was postponed for them to obtain legal representation.O
utside court, the two followed Beeld's photographer after he took their
picture. They took cellphone pictures of him and his car’s registration
number.Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said on Monday
that an internal investigation had been launched into the incident. Authorities
would wait for the result before suspending the men. Apart from the attack on
the student, the alleged rapist is sought for three other rape incidents. DA
councillor and board member of the Sinoville community policing forum, Arnold
van Niekerk, visited the student in hospital on Monday and said an example had
to be made of the two police officers if it was found that they had not
followed police procedure.
Beeld journalists Sonja Carstens and Hanti Otto wrote that meanwhile the
22-year-old Pretoria university student - who was stabbed 23 times before being
raped and left for dead last week is an “incredibly strong and courageous
woman”, one of her doctors said..“The strength of the Lord is shining through
her and her mother,” said Dr Lets Pretorius (who also is on trial in the
Boeremag treason-trial in Pretoria) on Monday after visiting the student in ICU
where she was in a stable condition. Eight of her knife wounds were potentially
fatal. Pretorius helped Dr Stefan Rawlins, a plastic and reconstructive
surgeon, and Dr Pieter Coertze, an orthopaedic surgeon, in the lengthy
emergency operation on the student following the attack. The student from
Magalieskruin, Pretoria, who was put on antiretroviral treatment following the
rape, gave permission to her mother and Pretorius to give details about her
injuries. Pretorius said a neurosurgeon had to help remove the point of the
knife blade, which broke off in her skull. “Judging from the stab wounds, I
suspect her attacker was left-handed,” he said. HATECRIME: Two black SA police
officers s/c Mphikeledi Alfred Mahlanga and w/o Amos Chris Masilela charged for
helping rapist escape: man had also stabbed the Pretoria university student 23
times: and so fiercely that knife-point was lodged in her skull, doctors said:
HATECRIME: Two black SA police officers s/c Mphikeledi Alfred Mahlanga and w/o
Amos Chris Masilela charged for helping rapist escape: man had also stabbed the
Pretoria university student 23 times: and so fiercely that knife-point was
lodged in her skull, doctors said:
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