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Original Post Date: 2008-03-07 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Troy Martens and Arthi Sanpath
Jessica Foord, the Kloof rape victim could not face her attackers in court on Friday, but hundreds of angry people arrived outside the Pinetown magistrate’s court on Friday morning to show their solidarity.
Sitting in her lounge on Thursday, Foord appeared calm and collected, but more determined than ever to see justice served. The petite woman said she did not believe in fighting violence with violence.
Standing with Foord will be the incensed local community, who have rallied behind her since news of the attack broke.
| ‘The entire experience afterwards was awful’ |
Anthony Asher-Wood, a resident of Hillcrest and one of the organisers of the protest, said the community has had “enough of the crime”.
Foord was gang-raped by five men in front of her father on Sunday in Shongweni, but the 21-year-old said the attack has given her a renewed purpose in life.
“What I went through should never happen to anyone. Not only was the rape terrible, but the entire experience afterwards was awful,” she said.
“When I went to the Pinetown district surgeon that evening it was awful. It’s located opposite a taxi rank. There were many people around, and four other girls and myself had to wait outside for the district surgeon to arrive because you can only call him once you are there,” she explained.
“Once I was inside it was even worse, he was so rude and rough. He told me to stop complaining, it felt as if I was just a big inconvenience to him,” said Foord.
| ‘Once I was inside it was even worse’ |
She said the room was “dingy and dirty” with a dirty cotton swab on the floor and that the bed the surgeon examined her on looked as though it had not been cleaned.
Meanwhile Leon Mbangwa, department of health spokesperson, said the situation Foord described after her rape “was completely unacceptable”.
“This is an issue I will definitely investigate and write a letter to the manager to get to the bottom of the matter,” he said.