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Learners identify alleged paedophile

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More than 50 learners who allege to have been sexually assaulted by a scholar patroller at a primary school in Soweto are believed to have positively identified the accused as the alleged perpetrator.

This emerged during the suspect’s appearance at the Protea Magistrates Court.

He faces three counts of rape and five of sexual assault.

The 57-year-old man appeared briefly in the Protea Magistrates court in Soweto charged with three counts of rape and five of sexual assault.

Initially 87 learners from the AB Xuma Primary school alleged they were sexually assaulted by the accused. So far statements have been obtained from 55 learners.

Some of them have positively identified the accused as the alleged perpetrator during an identity parade.

 

 

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