Cape cop to
appear for statutory rape, another for raping detained woman
September 7,
2013
A coloured
police constable accused of statutory rape was expected to appear in the
Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, the Independent Police
Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said.
The constable
from the Grassy Park police station, in the Western Cape, was arrested on
Tuesday.
“It is alleged
that 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 spokesman 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 coloured constable based at Macassar police station was
arrested after being accused of raping a 23-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.
The 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 on Wednesday and was due to appear in the Somerset West
Magistrate’s Court soon.
Ipid is an
oversight body which investigates allegations of crime levelled against police
officers.
