Namibia: Rape Suspect Gets Cold Feet Over Plea

5 September 2011

A YOUNG man who admitted that he raped a four-year-old girl in the Rehoboth district in early 2006 now wants to backtrack from the guilty plea that he gave in the High Court in Windhoek three weeks ago.

The suspect pleaded guilty to a rape charge on August 16. He admitted that he had committed a sexual act with a girl, then aged four, at a farm in the Rehoboth district on February 4 2006.

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