received from a friend….. and the anti self defense fanatics want to do what????????/
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From: “spiker” <[email protected]>
To: <Recipient list suppressed>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:23 PM

On the 28th of October 1999, a young 12-year old girl’s future was
completely shattered.
She was raped and almost stabbed to death. She sustained multiple stab
wounds to the back, chest and stomach, as well as the face.

One of the stabs she received penetrated her spine and she is now paralyzed
for life.
This little girl is my cousin. I went to see her in hospital on
Friday. When I saw her, she was lying on her side and all I could see was
her stitched face. Because her whole little body was riddled with stab
wounds, she was unable to find a comfortable position.
When I asked her how she was doing, she whispered: “I am sore, I am sore”.

She asked her mother to turn her over on the other side, and as I helped
her mother do so, I saw that her whole throat was covered in the most
terrible blue and deep purple bruises. Her rapist tried to shut her up
when she was screaming. When that did not help, he tried to stab her to
death.

All I can say is thank God she is alive.

The reason for this email is plain and simple. The South African judicial
system is up to maggots, and corruption and discrimination is life. No
justice will be brought to this case. Give it a couple of years, and the
rapist (who was caught, I might add) will be out on parole in a couple of
months. In the meantime, one beautiful little girl’s life has been
changed. Not only does she have to live with this memory, but she has to
be reminded of it every single day in the form of her paralysis. The South
African government wants to implement something called chemical castration,
where they inject men with a chemical that decreases their sex drive. This
is NOT good enough. Rape is not in the male member, but in the sick male
mind.

I know this happens to women all over the world on an hourly basis, but
this time it has hit too close to home and I CANNOT, and I repeat CANNOT,
stand by and do nothing about it. Therefore I would like your help in
signing this petition for a harsher sentence for rape. Life imprisonment
might be a good suggestion as, ironically enough, prisoners do not tolerate
child molesters and rapists, and because of this, they have their own
“system of punishment” in prison. I want this man to go through agony for
the rest of his life. I want him to be reminded of the pain that this
little girl has to go through for the rest of HER life.

Why should this animal deserve ANY better?

Please forward this to as many people as you can. The more signatures we
have from all over the world, the better our chances that someone in power
might listen. If we don’t do something about it, some other time it might
hit too close to your home… Also, please keep me updated by regularly
sending back a list to me, so I can keep record of our progress.

I sincerely appreciate your help and support in this matter, and so do Luze
Homan and her mother.

Kind Regards, Nikki Botha
Johannesburg, RSA