Media Statement
South African Police Service
Office of the Provincial Commissioner Free State

FREE STATE - A video clip is making rounds on social media, where two boys were seen violating a 12-year-old school girl on a school premises in Kgotsong, Bothaville.

Members of Welkom Family Violence and Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, led by Lt Colonel Bizzah Ntsiane, managed to follow up on the incident. The mother registered a case of rape on behalf of her daughter. The two boys, aged 14, were arrested for rape and charged. They were released in the care of their parents.

The duo will appear on Monday, 20 November 2023  in Bothaville Magistrate Court.

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