Maureen Johnson* found out that her uncle had been molesting her daughter when he confessed to her in front of a pastor that he had “asked my daughter to take off her panties”.
It’s easier to read it, she says, because “I don’t want to think back to that day. I don’t want to relive it.” For the girl’s father, Grenville Johnson*, the only way to go now is the legal route. Although his wife’s uncle was found guilty and sentenced in 2018 to two years’ house arrest, Grenville takes issue with the fact that the pastor did not immediately report the sexual abuse to the police, as he is bound by law to do.Section 54 of the Sexual Offences Act stipulates that anyone who knows a child is being sexually abused must report it immediately to the police.
Luke Lamprecht, from Women and Men Against Child Abuse, says that in not reporting the matter to the police immediately, the pastor prioritised the perpetrator’s position as a church elder over the child’s safety.“They also created their own internal structure to deal with the matter. Like, ‘because … you’re a member of our church, we will make a call over and above the law of the country’.”
A few years after being welcomed back into the church, it came to light that Michelle Arendse* had been abused by the perpetrator. She was 14 at the time it was discovered, but the abuse had been going on for four years.Little, that is, aside from meeting her to find out whether there was any truth to what they had heard. “Hy’t ook hier gesit. Ek kon mos nie vir hom face nie. Ek kan nou nog nie vir hom face nie. Hulle’t vir my gevra of hy enigsins aan my gevat het. En hy’t vir my gekyk.
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