Officials nab alleged taxi sex pests
8 February 2010, 14:00
By Bianca Williams
Two city officials were in the right place at the right time to save a teenage girl from being kidnapped.
Principal Inspector Brian Robyn and Acting Senior Inspector Vincent Forward of the City of Cape Town's Informal Trading Unit saved the 17-year-old from a driver and his assistant who allegedly refused to let her get off at her stop.
One of the suspects is said to have indecently assaulted her.
Robyn said that last week a man informed them that the driver's assistant had refused to let the
17-year-old schoolgirl get off at her stop in Salt River and was holding her captive in the taxi.
"Thank God we were at the right place at the right time and that the other passenger came to alert us," he said.
But the girl's ordeal was far from over when the taxi stopped on the station deck in Cape Town.
"When we got to the scene the girl, who is very small for her age, was in the back of the taxi with the guard. She told us that the guard had fondled her breasts and genitals," said Robyn.
The taxi driver was arrested as an accomplice as he had not indecently assaulted the girl.
"When we did a Morpho Touch (thumbprint scan), it was established that the driver of the van has an outstanding warrant for a case of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm," added Robyn.
The two suspects appeared in Cape Town Magistrates' Court on Friday where the case was postponed to tomorrow. - Daily Voice
Two city officials were in the right place at the right time to save a teenage girl from being kidnapped.
Principal Inspector Brian Robyn and Acting Senior Inspector Vincent Forward of the City of Cape Town's Informal Trading Unit saved the 17-year-old from a driver and his assistant who allegedly refused to let her get off at her stop.
One of the suspects is said to have indecently assaulted her.
Robyn said that last week a man informed them that the driver's assistant had refused to let the
17-year-old schoolgirl get off at her stop in Salt River and was holding her captive in the taxi.
"Thank God we were at the right place at the right time and that the other passenger came to alert us," he said.
But the girl's ordeal was far from over when the taxi stopped on the station deck in Cape Town.
"When we got to the scene the girl, who is very small for her age, was in the back of the taxi with the guard. She told us that the guard had fondled her breasts and genitals," said Robyn.
The taxi driver was arrested as an accomplice as he had not indecently assaulted the girl.
"When we did a Morpho Touch (thumbprint scan), it was established that the driver of the van has an outstanding warrant for a case of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm," added Robyn.
The two suspects appeared in Cape Town Magistrates' Court on Friday where the case was postponed to tomorrow. - Daily Voice
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