A 9-year-old girl, defiled and set on fire by
an unidentified criminal, is currently fighting for life in the intensive care
unit of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. The 27-year-old suspected should reportedly appear in the Bellville
Magistrate’s Court today on charges of rape and attempted murder. The girl’s
grandmother wept yesterday as she told how she untied her grandchild, who was
found lying on rocks on Sunday afternoon.
“I
thought she was dead but she asked for water when she saw me. She was
badly burned but she could speak. She told me that she had begged the man not
to kill her but he strangled her, drenched her with fuel and set her
alight. She said he laughed as she burned.”
According to reports,
the girl disappeared on the way to her father’s place (parents not married) on
Saturday night. A neighbor told the grandmother the following day that a child
had been found in a nearby field. Soon the heavily burned girl was discovered
by her grandmother. The community apprehended a man who had bloodstains on his
trousers and was wearing a burnt T-shirt.
-INFORMATION NIGERIA
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