Khumalo gave boy 'sex lessons'

2003-03-18 16:43

Johannesburg - Alleged serial rapist Fanwell Khumalo told a pre-teen boy he would show him how to have sex and then raped the little girl who was walking to the shop with the boy, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Tuesday.

Khumalo has denied all 132 charges, including the 42 of raping girls between seven and 14, between 1999 and May 2001, when he was arrested. He claims he is the victim of mistaken identity.

All of the children who have testified have identified Khumalo as the man who raped them.

According to evidence before Judge Max Labe and two assessors, as the time progressed from the first kidnapping and rape to the end of the attacks, the perpetrator became more and more depraved.

He began with isolated rapes, progressing to double rapes and, on January 10, 2001, he forced the little boy to undress and to get on top of the girl.

"We told him we were not going to have sex because we were too young," the girl testified on Tuesday.

"I was wondering how I would face him at home as my mother and his mother are friends," said the girl, who testified in her school uniform, like many other alleged victims in the case.

Boy told to look elsewhere

Court directions forbid any mention of any of the victim's defining characteristics.

The girl said Khumalo had said he would show the little boy how it was done, but he raped her twice at two different locations and both times ordered the boy to look elsewhere.

Like most of the other victims it was her first experience of sex and she, unlike the others who threw down the toilet paper the rapist gave them to wipe themselves, wanted to take the paper home to give to her mother.

She was however ordered by the attacker to throw it away, which she did.

She said she was not only raped, the attacker then demanded money. She and the boy gave him the money they had.

The girl said she was in terrible pain after being raped twice and felt faint. At the medical facility where she was taken, she was given pills and other medication.

For some time afterwards whenever she sat down she was in great pain.

The child confided that her mother had told her not to blame herself for what had happened.

She said she was certain that the man who had raped her was Khumalo.

The trial continues.

- SAPA