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A tuck shop owner has been handed a life sentence fby the Lichtenburg Magistrate's Court or raping a 12-year-old customer in the North West.

The girl was a regular customer at Eshethu Desta Defere's shop.

The man, an Ethiopian national living in South Africa illegally, dragged the child from his shop into a shack and raped her. "His conviction emanates from an incident that occurred in June 2021 at an informal settlement known as Scotland, in Coligny, where he owned a shop," said Mamothame.

 

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