“I’m here to tell the truth about what Uncle Ronald did to me.” This small voice echoed inside the East London high court on Tuesday from a TV monitor. A little girl was continuing her testimony against her “uncle”, Ronald Leon, 46, after a query from judge Gerald Bloem. Leon has pleaded not guilty to raping the child at a preschool in Qonce in October 2024 when she was four years old.
In the event of a conviction, the state has called for life imprisonment. The child, testifying with the assistance of an intermediary, told the court that she was left alone in the preschool with Leon when her teacher went to a shop to buy sweets. The other children had gone home and her mother had not yet arrived to fetch her.
It is the state’s case that the accused lived at the preschool, which was housed in the school owner’s home, with the teacher. After the assault, the child said, she went to watch television in the teacher’s room until her mother arrived. “My mom was at work and she usually picked me up at night or during the day.
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My mother came to fetch me.” She, her mother and her aunt then drove to to a grocer, and while her mother was in the shop she described to her aunt what happened. The girls said the trio went to a fast-food franchise and her mother accompanied her to the toilet.
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