Youth charged with sexually assaulting woman after house party

Deqwan Norton

A youth was on Friday charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an attack at her friend’s house, where she decided to sleepover after a house party.

The charge against 25-year-old Deqwan Norton states that on August 7, 2022, at D’Urban Backlands, he sexually penetrated the 29-year-old woman without her consent.

Norton, a labourer, was not required to plead to the charge, which was heard in camera and he was remanded to prison until August 26, 2022.