15-year-old South African girl kills man who raped her by shooting him with his own gun

A 15 year-old teenager shot dead the man who raped her in Wedela, Carletonville, South Africa with his own gun.

Captain Eddie Boboko, the SAPS Spokesperson for the cluster, who confirmed the incident on Monday, March 8, said the girl was accosted by a man on Saturday night, and was forced into an area of bush where she and her male friend were robbed at gunpoint before the assailant raped her.

“The young girl who had been forced into the bush at gun point by the suspect was ordered to undress. The man also undressed and proceeded to rape her,” said Captain Boboko.

The girl saw an opportunity when she spotted her rapist’s firearm, seemingly on the ground, grabbed it and shot him in the head with it.

The Wedela SAPS have opened a case of rape and an inquest docket. “The deceased has not yet been identified,” Boboko told the Merafong Observer.

The young girl will also receive counseling for the trauma she has experienced.

South Africa is among the most violent countries on Earth, and its homicide rates are constantly increasing.

In 2019-2020, the country suffered 21,325 murders, according to the latest annual police report — up 1.4 percent on the previous year.

And the rate of femicide is five times higher than the global average.

South African police receive 110 rape accusations every day. As with the murder rate, those numbers have been rising; 2019 saw a 1.7 percent increase in sexual assault cases, or 53,293 recorded attacks in total.

Comparing the levels of sexual violence seen in South Africa to those suffered in a country at war, President Cyril Ramphosa announced in late 2019 that tackling the scourge of abuse would be a national priority.

“There is a dark and heavy shadow across our land. Women and children are under siege,” he said at the time, describing South Africa as one of “the most unsafe places in world to be a woman”.