A 38-year-old Fingo Village woman fears for her life after pressing charges against a man who stabbed and raped her two weeks ago.
A 38-year-old Fingo Village woman fears for her life after pressing charges against a man who stabbed and raped her two weeks ago.
She spoke candidly about the night she was viciously attacked and raped on her way back from a Victoria Road tavern with a friend.
"I tried to fight off my attacker but in the end he was too strong for me," she said. She said the man grabbed her and started to beat her up. He then started stabbing her and tried to drag her into a bushy area.
Her boyfriend tried to help, but retreated when the man attacked him as well. Left to fend off her attacker by herself, the man dragged her to his house in Dr Jacob Zuma Drive, where he continued to assault her.
The horrific incident took place in Fingo Village on 16 November around 9pm, the woman told Grocott's Mail. She said the man raped her again in the morning and ordered her to wash.
"There was blood all over my clothes from the head wound.
"I asked this man to help me and get me to the hospital," the visibly injured woman said. She said her attacker asked a friend of his to accompany them to Settlers Day hospital.
"When I arrived at the Day hospital I went to the examination room and I told the nurse that I had been raped by the man who had accompanied me to the clinic," she said.
"She called an ambulance to take me to take me to Settlers Hospital and told me to report it to the doctor."
The doctor asked her to first open a case at the police station and afterwards examined her. She said she spent the night at the hospital and was discharged the following day. When she bumped into her alleged attacker for the first time after the incident as she was going to the hospital to have her wounds looked at, she says she got the fright of her life.
"I am afraid to go out of the yard. If he could see me now maybe he could kill me… I don't know," she said. The woman is now is receiving counselling at Settlers Hospital and is staying with relatives. When asked how she felt about her boyfriend running away on the night of the incident she said she never wants to see him again.
Grahamstown police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender said police are investigating a case of rape. She said the suspect allegedly dragged the woman to his home and took a glass jug and hit her on her forehead. Govender said the woman called for help but no one responded.
