Nicholas Ninow’s bizarre poem in court

Sentencing proceedings in the case of the Dros child rapist are underway at the High Court in Pretoria today. Nicholas Ninow was found guilty of raping a seven-year-old girl in the toilet cubicle of the Dros restaurant in the capital. Ninow admitted to raping the little girl in September last year.

Ninow read-out a 48-line poem in court, as way of apologising to the seven-year-old girl he raped – here’s what he wrote.

A broken heart,

Of an innocent child,

A family falls apart,

And that’s putting it mild.

She may never forgive,

Nor even forget,

The pain I would leave,

And forever regret.

She may never understand,

And may often be confused,

Not knowing where she stands,

Nor why she was abused.

She would awaken once again,

From the same bad dream,

Barely even ten,

Tears flowing like a stream.

With her mother by her side,

They sit and mourn as one,

Even though they tried,

They could never see the sun.

With the morning on its way,

She’d soon have to go to class,

Always wishing she could stay,

But knowing she has to pass.

During it all,

He sits in his cell,

Staring at the walls,

Knowing he’s in hell.

With a blade in his hand,

He could take away the pain,

Buried beneath the sand,

Feeling peaceful and sane.

The blade at his wrist,

He wishes he could die,

He then clenches his fist,

And started to cry.

He puts the blade down,

And wipes away his tears,

He then starts to frown,

And overcome his fears.

Are the words he repeats.

He knows one day,

He’ll pay back his debt,

And that it would all be OK,

Once he’s proven his regret.

Knowing what to do,

He gets to his feet,

“I owe it to you”,