Appeal court lashes lenient judge and gives child rapist maximum sentence

Even after a man was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old child three times in a single week, Eastern Cape acting judge Templeton Mageza believed the assaults weren’t the “worst kind” of rapes, and decided to lower the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment...

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