Sex offenders given life terms
More than 50 sexual offenders have been sentenced to life terms over the past month.
AS the country commemorates 16 Days of Activism against Women and Child Abuse, various Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units in KwaZulu-Natal have a lot to celebrate.
The units have secured 59 convictions on various sexual related cases, with a total of 365 suspects being arrested in November for various cases like, rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, child neglect, attempted murder, house robbery, contravening of the protection order and other crimes.
According to Colonel Thembeka Mbhele, provincial SAPS spokesperson, nine life term imprisonments were handed down to the convicted accused and a total of 550 years in jail. The accused have been convicted by various courts in the province after they were found guilty of these sexual related offences.
KwaZulu-Natal acting provincial commissioner, Major General Bheki Langa, applauded these successes achieved by the FCS units.
“These sentences proves that our units will make sure that all the sexual offenders are locked behind the bars for a very long time,” he said.
