Bail denied for Bloubergstrand couple facing serious child abuse charges

A Bloubergstrand couple has been denied bail by the Western Cape High Court after appealing a lower court’s decision regarding serious charges of sexual abuse and child pornography involving their minor daughters. A couple from Bloubergstrand has been denied bail by the Western Cape High Court after their appeal against a lower court’s decision was rejected.The pair faces grave allegations of sexually abusing their biological minor daughters. The court found that even though their travel documents were with the police, due to the nature of the charges against them, which carry a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, and due to their having a multitude of friends in South Africa and abroad, there “will always be an incentive to evade their trial”.

“They have the financial means to do so,” Acting Judge S Smith said. The duo, who cannot be named to protect the identities of the three and eight year old girls, face 25 counts which includes rape, attempted sexual assault,making of and distributing pornographic videos of the children, taking of nude photographs of the children, sexual grooming, using a child for child pornography, compelled self-assault/masturbation, compelling a child to witness self-masturbation, possession of child pornography, and abuse or neglect of a child. They are accused of having committed sexual and pornographic acts with their biological daughters in February 2020 and April 2025.

The two were arrested after police executed a search warrant at their home on June 10, 2025. The warrant was executed when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in 2025, alerted South African authorities that the two adults linked to Dizzy’s Pub and Restaurant in Camps Bay were involved in child pornography images distributed on websites.