‘Picture of Valencia’s naked, bleeding body will stay with me forever’


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Cape Town – Sixteen years after the horrific gang-rape and brutal assault of her only daughter, Sylvia Farmer still clearly remembers the gruesome sight of Valencia sitting naked and bleeding on a pavement in Eucalyptus Street, Eerste River.

“I have been trying to forget seeing my child sitting in a tiny ball, so small and frail,” she said.

“But I can’t. It’s a picture that will stay with me forever.”

And while the arrest this past weekend of another suspect for the 1999 gang-rape and murder of the 14-year-old is reopening old wounds, a part of her is content.

“The wheels of justice are turning. This is good. Everyone who did this to my child must pay.”

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