By Genevieve Serra
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A convicted child rapist is on trial for a sexual attack on a young girl that has left her paralysed and barely able to speak.
Stephen “Foxy” Isaacs is accused of brutalising his young victim, beating and burning her after her torturous rape.
On Monday, a defiant Isaacs appeared in the dock of the Cape High Court where he insisted he is innocent.
The grim trial of one of the Cape’s most notorious rapists kicked off with chilling testimony from two boys how they found the tiny, broken, bleeding victim.
The boys have given a detailed account of how they helped rescue the little girl who had been left for dead.
The boys, aged 12 and 15 years old, were playing in bushes close to their home when they saw the girl crawling out from behind some trees.
They described how they ran over to her and carried her to the nearest street before running off to call her mom.
Isaacs pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, rape, assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm and attempted murder.
Investigators claim Isaacs convinced the girl to go with him to an industrial area called Azla on Friday, October 22, 2010.
Along the way, he allegedly dragged her into an area known as Boombos in Darling.
Here he allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him before raping her.
Police claim Isaacs hit the girl on the head and face when he was done raping her and then strangled her and burned her with cigarettes.
He allegedly dragged her into bushes along Evita Bezuidenhout Boulevard where he left her for dead.
The brave little girl, who was nine years old at the time of the horrific incident in October 2010, survived the traumatising ordeal.
She was blind for three months after her horrific ordeal due to a lack of oxygen to the brain.
And she was left paralysed in her right arm and both her legs.
On Monday, the 12-year-old boy told Judge Lee Bozalek that the girl’s face, chin, neck and arms were covered in cuts and scratches.
“She couldn’t stand and she couldn’t talk… we carried her to the shop and then we went to call her mother,” said the boy.
“We couldn’t carry her anymore because she was heavy.”
His friend told the court that the girl looked like someone who was drunk when they first saw her.
He added they only realised it was their schoolmate when she got closer to them.
“She was wearing her school pants and a pink top,” said the boy.
“She was carrying one school shoe in her hand and a packet of chips.
He told the court that she tried getting up several times but wasn’t able to.
Earlier on Monday morning a 17-year-old girl, who was with the child on the day of the violent attack, said Isaacs had spent the afternoon playing with them.
She told Bozalek that Isaacs was gesuip and afterwards went to sit against a wall and watched them play.
The teenager told the court the girl wanted to go look for her mother when it started to get dark.
“But we told her she can’t go because it was dark… then she said she was thirsty and was going to the shop,” she said.
The friend said she and the other kids went to look for the girl when she took long to return.
“She wasn’t at the shop when we got there and then we saw her walking through the bush towards Azla,” said the girl.
“[Isaacs] was walking behind her in the same direction.”
She said she didn’t see her friend again until the next afternoon.
The trial continues on Tuesday.
*This article was published in the Daily Voice
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