Cape Town - A Cape Town woman claims she was raped and conned out of R50 000 by a man masquerading as a former cop.
The 50-year-old Lansdowne teacher now wants to expose Michael MacDonald Jantjies after he allegedly sodomised her.
“He said ‘you need my holy sperm in your anus’, I couldn’t breathe, I felt like I was going to pass out,” the woman told the Daily Voice.
She claims Jantjies said he was living in Kuils River but is originally from Namibia, and used to be a cop.
Police spokesman Constable Noloyiso Rwexana confirmed the 51-year-old man was released on bail in 2015 and is expected back in the Vredenburg Regional Court next week on charges of rape and fraud.
Jantjies allegedly operates with an accomplice, Cheryl Anne Damons, 58, who has been charged with intimidation after threatening the 50-year-old victim on Facebook.
The traumatised mom of three says she met Jantjies in 2014 when he sent her a Facebook friend request.
“At the time I had just broken up with my boyfriend, so I wasn’t looking for a relationship – I thought he would be a good friend.”
He told her he has three daughters, two who were studying medicine.
“I later found out the ‘daughter’ I’d been speaking to [over the phone] was his accomplice,” she said.
They often visited her friends in Vredenburg, where the alleged rape took place in March 2015.
“Whenever we went to Vredenburg, we would stay at a backpackers and sleep in separate beds,” the woman said.
But on one night, he allegedly crept into her bed and attacked her.
“I told him I wanted to leave, next thing I was flat on my stomach and I felt an excruciating pain,” she recalls.
“He always walked with a gun... I always felt very safe with him, until that time.”
Hours later he took her home “like nothing happened”.
He disappeared a few days later, allegedly with R50 000 meant for a house he would help her buy.
She drove Jantjies into Cape Town and waited in the car for three hours when he took the money to the “housing department” inside the Golden Acre, and went looking for him when he never returned.
Worried, she even went to the police station to report him missing.
But days later she received an email from Jantjies saying he’d been robbed.
The woman says she Googled his name, and that’s when she found out he was a “crook”.
The Daily Voice tried to call Jantjies several times on a number provided, but his phone went to voicemail.
He did not respond to messages.
Daily Voice