Nine life sentences for rapist stepfather
IMMORAL, dark and narcissistic were some of the words Judge Mohini Moodley used to describe a Verulam child rapist during his sentencing on Friday in the Durban High Court.
The man, 46, had used his stepdaughter as a sex slave and repeatedly raped her since she was 9 years old.
Judge Moodley said as the child’s guardian, the stepfather, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, now 13, had betrayed and violated her in the worst way possible.
"The accused ravaged the complainant not only physically but he brought untold damage on her mind and psyche. He has three young children of his own yet (he) had no conscience in violating a young child he considered his own,” said Judge Moodley.
She sentenced him to nine life terms and a further 173
