Namibia: Girl Raped After Christmas Eve Church Service

6 January 2014

Ongwediva — Attending a Christmas eve mass has turned into horror for an 18-year old woman in the Oshana Region.

The victim who was on her way from church at Okatana, some kilometres outside the town of Oshakati was allegedly raped by a taxi driver who offered her a ride. The incident took place on the 24th of last month at around 23h00. The taxi driver, 24-year-old David Teofilus, made his first court appearance in the Oshakati Magistrate's Court and has been remanded in jail. The woman who lives at Oshoopala location in Oshakati, which is a few kilometres from Okatana, allegedly found herself in shock and horror when she realised that the taxi was travelling in a different direction and not in the direction she asked him to drive.

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