Cape Town – Mokoena Petrus Nhlapo, 42, of Free State was reportedly sentenced to life on Tuesday after raping 15 women whom he lured via Facebook with promises of jobs and pretending to be a successful businessman.
According to News24, Nhlapo had been posing as a successful businessman on Facebook since 2015. He lured his victims with job promises.
He set up offices in different places where he conducted fake interviews with his victims before raping them.
At some point, he recorded a sex video with one of his victims then posted it on his Facebook account.
This encouraged other victims to open rape cases against him.
IOL reported that Nhlapo was arrested on June 1, 2018, and was remanded in custody until he was sentenced on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.
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Nhlapho faced 15 cases with 62 charges.
“He was also sentenced on six counts of assault with a fine of R300 or thirty days imprisonment, three counts of kidnapping with five years’ imprisonment each, one count of malicious damage to property with a fine of R1 000, and one count of crimen injuria with a fine of R200 or twenty days imprisonment,” the report quoted Provincial police spokesperson Captain Phumelelo Dhlamini as saying.
Nhlapho’s victims were said to be aged between 20 and 22 years.
Two of the victims were South African, while the other 13 were from Lesotho.
“The convict did not show any remorse when he was sentenced to serve life imprisonment for rape charges,” the report quoted Dhlamini as saying.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
