A nine-year-old girl is fighting for her life in a Cape Town hospital after she was savagely raped, beaten and burnt - and when she managed to break free from her attacker, she fled and was knocked over by a car.
Now, cops in Darling are on the hunt for the convicted child rapist Stephen “Fox” Isaacs, 40.
The Daily Voice has a copy of Isaacs’ personal prison documents, which indicate that he is out on parole.
Isaacs was released on parole six months ago after serving time at the Malmesbury Correctional Centre.
Police want to question him about the attack in which the brave little girl survived a tremendous ordeal after being hit on the head and face, choked, burnt with cigarettes and dragged by her arms into bushes along Evita Bezuidenhout Boulevard.
She is critical at Tygerberg Hospital.
Cops say after the ordeal, the girl broke free from the clutches of her attacker and ran into the road and was hit by a car.
The police’s provincial spokesman Captain FC van Wyk says: “The suspect came and fetched the nine-year-old victim at an address in Botterman Avenue on Darling on Friday, October 22 and dragged her into a nearby bush where he forced her onto the ground and raped her.
“The victim ran out of the bush, trying to escape from the suspect and was hit by a car.
“The victim sustained multiple injuries to her face.”
Van Wyk says police want to question Isaacs about the attack.
“Stephen alias Fox/Foxy can help Vredenberg FCS unit in their investigation,” says Van Wyk.
Now the family are awaiting the results from tests after she suffered a series of fits earlier this week and was transferred from Malmesbury Hospital to Tygerberg Hospital.
The child’s deeply-shaken mother, 39, has been at her bedside ever since the attack.
“We are worried that the man might still be in Darling,” she says.
“The cops must catch him.
“She can’t speak at the moment because she suffered fits.
“Her attacker thought he left her for dead.”
The stretch of bush where the rape attack occurred is just metres from where Isaacs was living with the nine-year-old’s mother’s aunt after his release from prison.
Family members and neighbours say the horror unfolded last week Friday afternoon after the child came from school.
A neighbour, 44, who asked not to be named, says it was her 13-year-old son who found the beaten and bruised girl wandering in the middle of the road last week Saturday.
“My son was sitting with his friends in trees along Evita Bezuidenhout and an area we called Asla, when he saw a girl coming out of the bush,” she says.
The woman says her son’s attention was immediately drawn to the girl because he suspected she was drunk as she walked around in a daze.
“She wasn’t walking in a straight line and she told him she was hit by a car.”
The woman claims her son was horrified when he recognised the girl and saw that she was severely bruised in her face and walking in her school socks and says: “She was partially dressed in school clothing while carrying one school shoe in her hand.”
Soon after that the girl was taken home and rushed to hospital.
Meanwhile, the little’s girl’s mom’s aunt, 54, who Isaacs was living with after his release on parole, says they are shocked by the incident.
“When Isaacs was released on parole he came to stay here because he spent time with my husband in jail,” she says.
“We knew that he was a child rapist, what must people think of us now while police look to question him?”
Community workers Mary-Ann Brown and Robert Bezuidenhout say they are outraged by the senseless attack.
Anyone with information about Isaacs’ whereabouts can contact Detective Constable Ludick on 082 522 1012 or Vredenberg FCS in 022 913 8814. - Daily Voice