The South African Magistrates Commission will continue to investigate a complaint that Krugersdorp Magistrate Herman Badenhorst “encouraged prison rape”.
This follows after the Commission and its ethical committee met at the end of August to discuss complaints against Badenhorst that could lead to him being impeached.
“It was decided that the case needs further investigation,” Magistrates Commission secretary Danie Badenhorst told the NEWS.
The NEWS previously reported that while he was sentencing convicted rapist Neo Mulaudzi last month, Badenhorst told him that he would be able to rape fellow inmates in prison.
The court transcript quotes him as saying: “In prison, we cannot prevent you committing rape. You can always rape the other inmates if you are so inclined but at least you will not be close to children and will not be able to rape children.”
Badenhorst found Mulaudzi (22) guilty of raping a 10-year-old boy who had been waiting for a school bus and of robbing him of R10.
In a complaint, Sasha Gear, programmes director for Just Detention International said, “We hope for an opportunity for reform and sensitisation on these issues.
“These sorts of views are not isolated; it is common amongst members of society and others in our criminal justice system.”
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