Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Crimes of the South African Police Service

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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The 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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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Raped-student-strong-and-brave-20111101
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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: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Raped-student-strong-and-brave-20111101