Special visitor for raped girl

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Published Jan 23, 2015

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Durban - A 10-year-old girl, left for dead after being raped and stabbed more than 20 times, got a special visitor in hospital this week.

The MEC for health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, called in to see her at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, later expressing his sadness that she was not joining her friends when schools opened on Wednesday.

This was because of the “atrocious and extremely inhumane” attack in November, he said, that left her with severe physical and emotional scars.

The girl is now spending a week at the hospital for a throat operation.

Dhlomo’s spokesman, Desmond Motha, said the surgeons had told the MEC that the operation was necessary because of the extended period she had been intubated.

She will then be transferred to RK Khan Hospital where she will spend a minimum of two months.

“She’s much better now and plays with other children in the ward. She’s stable and out of the intensive care unit and that is comforting,” Dhlomo said.

“I’m just sad that she won’t be going back to school along with the rest of the children.

“I have to register my absolute shock that someone could commit an atrocity like this. Acts such as these, perpetrated against women and children, are callous, barbaric and inhumane and really have no place in our society,” said Dhlomo, also the chairman of the provincial Men’s Forum.

“I call upon all the men of KZN to stand up and say: ‘Not in our names shall such heinous acts continue to be perpetrated against women, children or any member of society’.”

The MEC said he hoped that the level of care the girl was receiving would help her recover to such an extent that she could begin to help police identify her attacker/s.

There have been no arrests in connection with the brutal attack.

Dhlomo said he would be visiting the girl’s school to explain her condition to her teachers.

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