Rape tops the crime list ELLANIE SMIT Five rape cases were reported at the weekend, including a gang rape of a woman in Karibib.
According to the police, a 28-year-old woman was raped by two men in the Usab informal settlement in Karibib at about 23:30 on Saturday.
The woman was allegedly drinking with the two men at a shebeen when they forced her to go to an abandoned house and then took turns raping her. The two suspects also assaulted another man who tried to rescue her.
Both suspects, aged 28 and 42, have been arrested.
In another incident a nine-year-old girl was raped on Thursday at Nkata Village in the Kavango West Region by a boy, 15.
It is alleged that the boy dragged the girl into the bush and raped her. Police spokesman Inspector Slogan Matheus said the boy was released into the custody of his parents.
It was also reported that a 10-year-old girl was raped by a 49-year-old man at Nyikama village in the Kavango West Region on several occasions in September.
Matheus said the rapes occurred at different places such as the bush around the village, and sometimes at the girl’s house.
The suspect has been arrested.
In another incident on Thursday evening, a 16-year-old girl was raped by a man at Ohadiwa-Onamukulo village in the Ohangwena Region.
The man allegedly approached the girl and proposed that she should be his girlfriend, which she rejected. The man then pushed her to the ground and raped her. He has been arrested.
In another incident early Saturday morning in Agaat Street, Kuisebmond, a 42-year-old woman was raped by an unknown man.
The man apparently emerged from an unfinished building that is under construction.
Matheus said the victim was walking home when a man wearing a red jacket with a cap covering his face came out of the building, grabbed her by the neck and dragged her inside the building and raped her.
The suspect then took the woman’s wallet that contained her personal documents, which were later found in Kuisebmond area.
The suspect is still at large.