An eight-year-old girl was raped on Tuesday afternoon by a relative after she was left in his care at Arakaka, North West.
The girl was rushed to the Arakaka Hospital but was later transferred to the city after she continued to bleed profusely. According to the child’s mother, she had left to go to a shop that was five miles away from their home.
She said while she was on the bus she received a call from her daughter, saying: “Mommy come see wah happen to me. Me gon dead.” The woman said the girl related to her that the relative carried her into a room and began to rape her.
She said the child told her that the man instructed her to say that she fell off a generator while turning it off. The child yesterday underwent surgery for her injuries at the hospital but continues to bleed.
The relative is wanted for questioning by the police.
