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HIV+ teacher gets life imprisonment for raping boy
29 Jul 2015 at 14:38hrs | Views
HIV+ teacher gets life imprisonment for raping boy
Staff Reporter
Magistrage in Soweto, Audrey Mpofu sentenced a Soweto teacher to life imprisonment on Tuesday for raping a schoolboy.
Drum reported that in April, Mpofu found the teacher, who cannot be identified to protect her identity of the minor victim, guilty of raping the boy, then aged 10, on school premises in November 2013..
The HIV-positive Soweto primary school teacher who raped a boy at the school has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Even when Jaco Strydom, the teacher's defense attorney had pleaded with the court for a lesser sentence, Mpofu found no reason for her to give the 46-year-old teacher a lesser sentence than the prescribed minimum of life for the rape of a child younger than 16.
Mpofu said the man was educated and was fully aware of the effects of HIV because he had been living with the virus for eight years, the report said.
Staff Reporter
Magistrage in Soweto, Audrey Mpofu sentenced a Soweto teacher to life imprisonment on Tuesday for raping a schoolboy.
Drum reported that in April, Mpofu found the teacher, who cannot be identified to protect her identity of the minor victim, guilty of raping the boy, then aged 10, on school premises in November 2013..
The HIV-positive Soweto primary school teacher who raped a boy at the school has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Even when Jaco Strydom, the teacher's defense attorney had pleaded with the court for a lesser sentence, Mpofu found no reason for her to give the 46-year-old teacher a lesser sentence than the prescribed minimum of life for the rape of a child younger than 16.
Mpofu said the man was educated and was fully aware of the effects of HIV because he had been living with the virus for eight years, the report said.
Source - Drum
