Little girls kept in ‘cage’ at Roodepoort Police Station
The children were kept in a 'cage'-like room for two hours.
There is outrage following a post on Facebook about three girls – two aged 11 and another aged 7 – being locked up in a ‘holding cell’ on 11 July after their parents had been arrested.
The lawyer representing the mother and father has advised them not disclose the charges, but the mother has called the charges ‘frivolous’.
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The parents were arrested in the early afternoon and taken to Roodepoort Police Station. The mother alleged that at no stage the police offered to call family or friends to fetch the girls. Although there are child-friendly trauma rooms with cheerful pictures and colourful walls, the officers failed to take the children there. The children were kept in a ‘cage’-like room for two hours, allegedly with hardened criminals.
Roodepoort Police said they will investigate the incident.
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