Outcry over cop's 'child
rapes'
By KatlegoMoeng | May 29, 2013
AN ANTI-CHILD abuse lobby
group is incensed by the conduct of police and the judicial system, saying yet
another child has been let down after police failed to immediately collect DNA
evidence from a constable accused of rape.
Constable Paul Molefe Mampane, 48, is out on bail in another two
separate similar incidents, but has remained on active duty. "Why wasn't
DNA taken when he was arrested?" asked an irate Vincentia Dlamini-Ngobese,
spokeswoman for Women and Men Against Child Abuse.
"The Ipid [Independent Police Investigative Directorate] must also
investigate who is responsible for granting this child rapist bail for previous
rapes of an eight-year-old and a 12-year-old ..."
The officer allegedly raped one of the girls in KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga.
The other incidents happened in Tshwane.
Yesterday, Mampane appeared briefly in the Mamelodi West Magistrate's
Court for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in April. The matter was postponed to
June 5.
Ipid spokesman Moses Dlamini said Mampane was called by the community
policing forum on April 28 to assist them with a 13-year-old girl who was
unresponsive to their interventions. Her mother had complained to CPF that she
refused to do house chores.
"Mampane took the girl and gave her family the impression she was
going to be handed over to a female officer. [But] he took her to his house
where he raped her," Dlamini said.
