South Africa | A serial rapist received 42 life sentences in South Africa, the youngest of the victims was 9 years old

South African A 40-year-old man has received 42 life sentences after raping 90 people, most of whom were schoolchildren. The man committed the acts between 2012 and 2021. About that news BBC.

According to the South African National Prosecutor’s Office, the man had, among other things, ordered children to witness his rapes and forced young boys to rape girls.

The youngest of the man’s victims was a 9-year-old girl. The oldest victim was 44 years old. According to the prosecutor’s office, the man victimized people who were on their way to school and work or back home.

The man had also pretended to be an electrician and pretended he was coming to repair an electrical device in order to get to the victims’ home. He was caught in 2021. During the arrest, the police shot the man in the leg, as a result of which he lost his leg.

The man was convicted of several crimes, such as rape, kidnapping, theft and assault. According to the trial judge, the man showed no remorse for his actions and was not considered capable of rehabilitation.

The man committed the crimes in the Ekurhuleni municipality, which is located next to Johannesburg, South Africa’s most populous city. According to the BBC, more than 9,300 cases of rape were reported in South Africa between April and June alone.