Bramley Police Station commander, Colonel Owen King, is encouraging residents to report crimes against women and children.
The spokesperson for the station, Captain Molefe Mogodi said, “Society should report all forms of abuse which include sexual offences [and] crimes.”
Mogodi stressed that these crimes include but are not limited to rape, sexual assault, sexual grooming and child pornography.
He defined these terms further and said, “Rapes occur when a person [uses] force to have sexual intercourse with a person without consent. Sexual assault… is when a person forcefully, sexually violates another person without their consent, [for example] when a person indecently touches another while the other person did not give consent. Sexual grooming… occurs when a person educates, introduces or prepares a child to perform or witness any sexual act.”
Mogodi further defined child pornography as an act whereby a person or company uses a child or a mentally disabled person for a reward or money by publishing pornographic material of this child or mentally disabled individual.
“Any person, who knows or [has] witnessed any act of these offences being committed should get in touch with the police and report the perpetrators.”
He highlighted that there are protective measures available to the victims in terms of the law. “These measures are covered by criminal law [where there has been a] sexual offences and related matters and they [the law] are there to protect victims, more to older persons and persons living with mental disabilities.”
Details: Police 10111; crime stop 0860 010 111.
