Man tells of dying wife's hospital rape
2013-02-05 09:03
Bloemfontein - A man has told a Free State court how his
wife, who was dying of cancer in hospital, told him that she had been raped the
night before.
“My dear, I was raped last night,” the paralysed and dying
Magda Lombard, 51, told her husband Dirk when he came to visit her the
following day at the National Hospital in Bloemfontein, reported Volksblad.
She died a month later in the Mediclinic in Bloemfontein.
Kadisang Moema, 33, a nurse in the oncology ward, is
standing trial for raping Lombard twice.
Dirk Lombard testified on Monday, saying he told his wife:
“We have to stand together. We still, like always, love each another.”
She then told him how two nurses came to her and while the
female nurse held a hand over her mouth and held her down, the man tried to
penetrate her from the front. When he couldn’t achieve this, he penetrated her
from behind.
Lombard reported the incident to a doctor who said he would
report it to the matron.
“He told me I should remember my wife is confused because
she is ill. I then said: ‘She is not confused’.”
He organised for her to be moved to the Mediclinic as he was
worried about her safety.
He said the head of oncology apologised to him.
When police later came to take a statement from his wife,
she called him and said: “Pappa, it is those two.”
He saw Moema standing there and informed the police.
