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Daily News reports that children's’ rights groups have called for the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health Department to deal decisively with a trainee employee who allegedly posted on his Facebook page his desire to rape two children from his neighbourhood.
The trainee, at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, has since been barred from the facility, and the hospital’s management is investigating the social media post. It is not clear how long the man had worked at the hospital, and attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessful. The man posted on Facebook that his neighbour’s daughter had grown up - she is seven years old - and he had a desire to rape her. He posted a similar message about another neighbour’s 10-year-old child. Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo confirmed that the trainee had been removed from the facility pending an investigation. Childline KZN’s Adeshini Naicker said she was “appalled” to hear of the matter and applauded the decision of the KZN health department to immediately suspend the employee. Bobbi Bear, an NGO advocating for the rights of sexually-abused children, was also outraged and called for the Health Department and justice system to take the “hardest stance” against this kind of behaviour.
- Read the full original of this report by Chris Ndaliso at Daily News
- Read too, Prince Mshiyeni hospital suspends intern over rape post, at SABC News
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