Serial rapist on the prowl in Selebi-Phikwe

SELEBI-PHIKWE: A Mmadinare man reportedly raped a 14-year-old girl as she returned from a nightspot in Mmadinare over the weekend, police have confirmed.

Selebi-Phikwe station commander, Superintendent Victor Nlebesi said the victim who is a student at Makome Hill Junior Secondary School in Mmadinare was coming from a bar in the company of friends when the rapist pounced, tricked those in her company by accusing her of owing him and demanding that she should refund him right there and then.

“He took the juvenile away from her friends under the pretext he was discussing the so-called debt in private and that was when he dragged her to an old unused building where raped her”, said Nlebesi.

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