Judge Violet Phatshoane said what the rapist did was ‘repulsive and unpardonable’. Image: University of the Free State
A man who believed in “corrective rape” for lesbians has failed in an appeal against two life sentences.
Zabathini Jonas, from Petrusville in the Northern Cape, twice raped a 24-year-old woman, and told a magistrate in Philipstown that he “wanted to correct homosexual girls”.
After being convicted and jailed, the 30-year-old father of two appealed to the high court in Kimberley.
Judge Violet Phatshoane sent him packing last week, saying what he had done was “quite repulsive and unpardonable”.
She added: “The so-called ‘corrective rape’ is evil and cannot be countenanced. What [Jonas] did [to his victim] was to pulverise her sense of belonging and self-expression.”
Continue reading at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-07-24-youre-repulsive-judge-upholds-life-terms-for-rapist-who-targeted-lesbians/ (Source)
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