Rapist to languish in jail for 15 years
By Nthethe Maphaong
MASERU — A 45-year-old man from Thaba-Bosiu will spend the next 15 years in jail after he was convicted of rape and assault by the Maseru Magistrate’s Court last week. Mohlomi Mohatlane might however spend only 10 years behind bars if he pays a M5 000 fine in-lieu of the five-year sentence magistrate Ntsebiseng Moopisa gave him for assault. The court heard how Mohatlane, an unemployed man from Ha-Ntsane in Thaba-Bosiu, raped and assaulted a woman who works at a textile factory in Maseru West Industrial Area on February 11.
The victim whose name has been withheld for ethical reasons told the court how Mohatlane had brutally assaulted and raped her in the early hours of the morning of February 11. She told the court how Mohatlane had followed her until she reached a donga before viciously pouncing on her. “I saw a man near the donga where I was going to pass. I avoided passing near him but he followed me everywhere I was going,” she said.
“I could clearly see that it was Mohlomi (Mohatlane) because it was already in the morning and he was wearing a pair of khaki trousers and black boots with a Kaizer Chiefs (football club) hat.” “He followed me until he caught up with me and he said to me “letekatsi u tsoa kae ka nako ee?” (Hey you whore, where are you from at this time of the day?)”. She said she replied that she was rushing to work. “He told me to stop because he would whip me at the back with a stick. I ignored him and continued moving. He held me tightly with my clothes and pulled me inside the donga, I tried to fight back but I did not succeed, he pulled me down and pulled off my panties and started raping me,” she said.
A crown witness identified only as ’Mabafokeng said the victim called her to her house to narrate her ordeal. “Her eyes were swollen and I advised her to go report this incident to the police,” ’Mabafokeng said. “Molefi Hlalele offered his car (to take her to the police) to report the case”. Detective Constable Lesiea from Maseru Rural Headquarters at the Department of Child and Gender Protection Unit recorded the victim’s statement. Lesiea said he went to meet the village chief of Ha-Ntsane during his investigation.
“The accused (Mohatlane) was caught by the villagers who brought him to me after I had introduced myself,” he said. Mohlomi, who pleaded guilty to the charges, asked for the court’s leniency. “I am very sorry to plead guilty, I am a first offender, I am taking care of many orphaned children and I am still mourning the death of my aunt. My wife left me and I do not have a permanent job,” pleaded the accused.
Comment by mamoqato on 28 February 2013:
joale ha a na le likhusana le mmangoanae a shoele le mosali a balehile ke molato oa basali bohle? re tlameha ho patalla mathata a banna ka mmele ea rona? lehlanya la monna ke leo.
Comment by THLOMOHI on 28 February 2013:
Ke rapella letsatsi le fihle leo kalona Li-Biti tsohle li ka fumanang kahlolo e li lokelang. ena eona kahlolo e ‘nyane haholo ke ba kopela ho faoloa, ‘me ba faoleloe tlaase tlaase haholo. Mosali enoa oa molimo one a hlapile a e-ea mosebetsing a khaoletsoa ke senonnori sena se hloloang ke ka borikhoeng sa mo sulafatsa ka ntho e nyonyehang eno ea sona. ksuuuuua!
Comment by Mokopakopa on 28 February 2013:
I am speechless
Comment by shh on 28 February 2013:
he banna MaChiefs a etsang na!!
Comment by Oa Likoetseng on 28 February 2013:
Ntho eena ea likahlolo tsa Makhotla ha ena Toka, hobane ha li re letho ka moqusi kapa mohlokofatsuoa.
Kapa 5000 ee ke ea ngoanana? Haeba ke ea ‘muso, ke ea eng? ‘Mituoa eena ho thoeng ka ena?
Comment by Tlhase on 28 February 2013:
Let this animal hang by the scruff of his neck or at least rot in Jail. So his wife left him and he thinks it’s a license to rape women. His wife probably left him because of his rotten rapist ways. What self-respecting woman would stay married to a wild unscrupulous, merciless animal! Respect our women and children! Sies!!! Some animals are not worth the Oxygen they breath. It’s people like this that remind us that the Devil is alive and well. All these child molesters, rapists and savages all claim, “The devil made me do it”. I suggest the state send them to me their boss, Satan immediately since they are already carrying out Satan’s evil works. In the US, he would be next on death row.
Comment by Tlhase on 28 February 2013:
“send them to me their boss” – I meant send them to their boss
Comment by Ntat'a Mots'oeneng on 28 February 2013:
Banna, ke mathata joale, o kae
Satane a mo khothalelitseng ketso tsee,
o mo foraletse! O kopa ts’oarelo o
re ke qalo a etsa ketso tse tjena,
ke ka hona ke lumelang hore Satane
o itse ho eena “Molimo o itse u se
ke u a hlekefetsa motho” a re “ee,
ha re hlefeketsa, re utsoa, re bolaea, re beta re tla kena ntloana
ts’oana” Satane are “No man, Molimo o a tseba u tlaba bohlale
u ts’oane le eena, nka molamu o sebelise likhoka u robale le mosali
enoa, u tlaba monate” Hlokse a etsa
joala, litlamorao ke ho hlola ntloanats’oana lemo tse 15, bana ba sale le mathata joalo ka ha a bolela.
Comment by Tlhase on 28 February 2013:
O opile khomo lenaka Ntat’a Mots’oeneng. Ntatae Satane ha a tlo mo nts’a matjaleng. Makhotla a etse toka ho ba utloisitsoeng Bohloko ke ketso e nyontshang ena ea e entseng, a ske a mamela mepoto ea hore mangoanae o ile balimong, mosali o mo siile, o holisa likhutsana! Ke batla ba mo tonamise ka moo ka teronkong ba mo faole a tla hopole kamehla ha a sheba maqeba hore o ile a beta a khannoa ke Ntatae Satane!
Comment by e kholo on 28 February 2013:
Hei uena mabeta ke uena o sekebe oa re leka rona ka team ea rona, oa beta o roetse katiba ea LOVE and PEACE. o ne o sa roale tse ling keng tse kang tsabo Sea Robbers eleng batho ba likhoka? Nxa nxa nxa.