A 56 year old man has been arrested for allegedly cohabiting with a 15 year old teen in the impoverished Tonga village, Mpumalanga.

The police accompanied by Social Workers and officials from the Commission for Gender Equality pounced on the man just after midnight.

Inside the house, three kids were found sharing a room with the 56-year-old and among the kids was the 15-year-old girl. She was sharing the bed with the visibly ailing man.

The disoriented 15-year-old had been living with this man for the past five years.

Apparently the man was married to the little girl’ sister but the sister has since left, leaving the child behind.

The other two were allegedly sneaked into the country.

Police and the officials of the Commission for Gender Equality believe they have a water-tight case against the man.

“We are going to lay two charges, the police are going to assist us, one is going to be statutory rape. The second charge is for abduction. If we had a human trafficking chatter in South Africa, we were going to lay a human trafficking charge because there are elements of human trafficking and maybe there will be other charges that we are going to negotiate with the police to be actually added to the charge sheet,” says Commission for Gender Equality’s Mfanozelwe Shozi.

All the children have since been taken to a place of safety.
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