South African 'Facebook Rapist' Sentenced To 50years Imprisonment

'Facebook rapist,’ Thabo Bester, has been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment  for raping and robbing two women, he pleaded guilty to all four charges. He used social media to lure women by telling them international modelling scouts were interested in them and then he met them in person, rape and rob them at knife-point. He was in tears at Durban Magistrate’s Court on Friday when he explained to the court that he had been raped by his grandmother’s friend when he was young, raped several times by a man who promised to look after him, and also gang-raped in prison. 


He said he had never seen his parents and lived with his alcoholic grandparents, “My grandmother’s friend hurt me when he raped me, and I had an operation on my behind” when he told his grandmother about the abuse, it was like talking to a wall. When she died, he had to live in a squatter camp and while there he was approached by a man who promised to look after him, but who had then locked him in his house for days and raped him. “I resorted to crime to support myself. It is either you die or make a plan.” He had been found guilty of fraud in 2009 and sentenced to six months in jail “They treated me badly in prison because they thought I was from a well-off family.”He had been gang-raped. A bottle with soapy water was inserted into his anus while he was in prison. The report about his prison abuse was presented in court on Friday. It only mentioned the abuse, but not the rapes.

Persuade the court to give him a lesser sentence, Bester said he needed a second chance. “I know I have done terrible things. This is not truly who I am. I want the opportunity to put things right,” he said. If the court felt he did not deserve mercy, he would accept it.He was expected to be taken to Gauteng at the weekend to face other charges there, including murder."

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Source: TimesLive