Gauteng: Cops nabbed after sex trafficking victim ‘raped repeatedly’
Both the brigadier and captain are alleged to have paid a brothel owner for raping a woman who had been kept as a sex slave
The Hawks have arrested two senior members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday, 13 May 2021, for their alleged role in a sex trafficking operation in Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg.
According to the elite crime-busting unit, the two suspects, both aged 57, were regulars at an unidentified brothel where a missing woman was being held hostage and used as a sex slave. Instead of abiding by their oath and coming to her rescue, the officers – a brigadier and captain, forced themselves on the woman, raping her on multiple occasions and paying money to the brothel owner.