adminSukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent
POLICE have arrested a 16-year-old school drop-out from Bulilima District for allegedly raping two juveniles at knife point. Officer commanding police in Buililima-Mangwe District, Chief Superintendent Macdonald Samuriwo, said Hilson Sibindi pounced on the two unsuspecting victims on their way from school on Tuesday and produced a knife.
“We have a case of two girls who were raped while they were coming from school. They have identified Hilson, a boy from their area as the suspect but he is denying having raped them,” said Chief Supt Samuriwo.
“The two girls said they met the boy in a bushy area near Ndiweni Business Centre and he force-marched them to a bridge where he raped each of them once.”
Chief Supt Samuriwo said the juvenile first raped the 10-year-old while the younger girl watched helplessly after ordering her not to leave and went on to rape her also.
The two girls are pupils at Thekwane Primary School.
Chief Supt Samuriwo said Hilson turned villain a few minutes after offering to accompany the girls as they were going the same direction.
He said when they came to a bridge the lad ordered his victims to go under it and raped them.
Chief Supt Samuriwo said some villagers came to the girls’ rescue after hearing them screaming resulting in Hilson taking to his heels.
The villagers tried to give chase but he disappeared into the bushes and they escorted the girls to their homesteads.
A police report was made resulting in the boy’s arrest.
Bongani Ndlovu