Peter Dashboy Khoza
Peter Dashboy Khoza, a serial rapist was on Monday sentenced to 28 life sentences for each of the rapes he committed in Tembisa and Olifantsfontein in South Africa over a four-year period.
The man was handed an unbelievable hefty jail term of 538 years behind bars for his other crimes‚ including kidnapping and assaulting the children he raped and others.
Accordint to Timeslive, Judge Eben Jordaan found Khoza of 139 charges in the Johannesburg High Court earlier on Monday.
The man who is now 46 has been convicted of 28 counts of rape and two of attempted rape‚ 45 of kidnapping‚ 17 of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm‚ nine of common assault‚ 18 of sexual assault‚ 16 of compelling a child to witness a sexual offence and four of theft.
The offences were committed between 2007 and 2013 in the areas south of Pretoria. Khoza would lure girls as young as nine years old into the bushes where he would tie them up and rape some of the children.
He faced 152 charges but Jordaan found him not guilty on 13 charges‚ which included kidnapping‚ common‚ assault and theft.
In addition to the life sentences‚ Jordaan sentenced Khoza to:
• 12 years in prison for each of the two counts of attempted rape;
• 10 years for each of the 17 counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm;
• Five years for each of the 45 counts of kidnapping;
• Five years for each of the 18 counts of sexual assault;
• One year for each of the nine counts of common assault;
• One year for each of the 16 counts of compelling a child to witness a sexual assault; and
• One year for each of the four counts of theft.
All the sentences will run concurrently.
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