Mother raped in front of 6-year-old son

Margot Ludik and her husband Andries.

It was the wee hours of the morning, and Margot Ludik and her husband Andries were lying next to one another asleep in their Leeufontein home when suddenly their bedroom lights were switched on and they saw several armed strangers hovering over them.

“The robbers were shouting ‘we are going to kill you, you are going to die,’” Andries Ludik told a reporter.

The robbers woke the couple’s two young children, and tied their 5-year-old daughter face down next to her father in the bathroom, and their 6-year-old son next to his mother in the master bedroom. They retrieved 5,000 rand cash, and the Ludik’s thought the ordeal was over.

Margot said she believed everything was going to be fine when the robber untied her hands, massaged them and then retied them. “I really think it was a parting thought, but he climbed onto me while I was lying tied up. [IOL]

The couple have since underwent counseling and left for Austrailia.

“It is just crime and violence, and nothing is going to change” in South Africa, said Andries, a well-known lawyer in Pretoria who represents celebrities like Leon Schuster, Sonette Bridges and Louis van Wyk.

19-year-old Sentenced to Life in Prison for Raping Neighbor

A judge sentenced a 19-year-old man to life in prison for gang raping his 13-year-old neighbor who was walking home from school.

Magistrate Kgame Shai said the sentence would act as a deterrent to young people who thought their age would let them off the hook for serious crimes. [IOL]

The 19-year-old, an eighth grader at ZB Kunene Secondary School in KaNyamazane, threatened to assault the girl if she had told anyone, and “the court noted” he showed no remorse. Two male suspects were acquitted because the girl could not positively identify them. A fourth suspect remains at large.