A male nurse identified as Mitchells Plain is in the grips of the police after raping his own six-year-old stepdaughter.
According to this 52-year-old man, the child had made “sexual moves” on him so that is why he also raped her.
The report also claims that the man readily admitted that he is homosexual and only married her because he wanted children.
After his arrest in December 2019, he was later released on bail of R1000, however, he is to reappear in court on 17 March, police spokesperson, Siyabulela Malo confirmed.
According to the girl’s mother, she met the man in 2018 through a relative and when she was 6-months pregnant with their baby son, they got married.
“He said he was 50 and wanted to be a father and that I was not yet 40 yet and could give him at least three children,” she says.
She says one day her daughter, excited to see her stepfather come home from work, jumped into his arms.
“He said we must talk because she is making sexual moves on him. He said he got a sexual feeling when she slipped down off him.
“I sought advice from social workers and they interviewed the child. I was told to teach her about her safety boundaries.”
She says after that she did not allow her husband to be alone with her daughter. Last October, she confronted him about a male friend he went hiking with.
“I confronted him because he kept talking about this man for hours when we were in bed.
“He then admitted he was with this man for 17 years, but that he was just a ‘bietjie gay’.”
The mom says she also learnt that he had “nine credit cards and was in financial trouble”. She decided to move out and then allegedly found her child’s dirty panty in his bedroom drawer.
“She said daddy would do it to her while I slept at night and that she hoped I would wake up and that he had made up fairytale stories to her about trolls,” the mother says.
Byron La Hoe, of Western Cape Government Health, says they have started an internal investigation.
But the stepfather claims he is being framed by his wife:
“She left me because I was in financial trouble and that thing of the child happened after she moved out.”
When asked about alleged homosexuality, he said:
“Where is her proof? Yes, I have a friend and it is not that kind of relationship, we study together.”