‘I KNOW THERE WILL BE JUSTICE FOR MY GIRL’
EVERY Sunday morning he lay in bed waiting for the text message he received like clockwork each week.
“Daddy, what time are you picking me up for church?” Jesse Hess would ask.
But the messages stopped coming four months ago. All Lance Hess has left now are photographs and memories of his 18-year-old daughter – the lovely girl who only wanted to help others, the gentle soul who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
‘I’ve made peace with it because if I don’t, it will break me’
Jesse became another victim of gender-based violence when she was killed in early September in the flat she shared with her maternal grandfather in Parow, Cape Town.
The University of the
