Call for urgency in case of Cape Town teacher accused of s.e.xually grooming minor! Some community organisations in Cape Town have called on the prosecution team in the case of a teacher accused of sexually grooming a minor to up its game.
The State came under scrutiny at the Mitchells Plain Magistrates Court on Monday during the accused’s bail application.
The magistrate questioned the State’s lack of preparation to present its argument to oppose bail.
Cape Town teacher
The magistrate was also confused by the State’s stance on bail, while also conceding that the accused fulfils all legal requirements to be granted bail.
The 35-year-old teacher appeared before a magistrate on Monday to apply for bail, and the matter was postponed to next week.
The publication spoke to the founder of Parents for Equal Education South Africa, Vanessa Le Roux, outside court.
“I feel like SAPS [South African Police Service] and the DPP [Director of Public Prosecutions] have failed our children. If the defence was ready, the prosecution should have been ready. So, they must come prepared. In fact, we demand that they come prepared and oppose bail again on the 12th of July.”
Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum (CPF) spokesperson, Linda Jones, called for bail regulations to be tightened.
“Mitchells Plain has no borders and does not have 24/7 police officers on duty to watch those perpetrators to see that they’re not violating their bail conditions by going to an area that they’re not supposed to. So, what gives them the assurance that they won’t go into those areas.”
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