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KZN man gets life in prison for raping daughter [video]
To protect the child's identity, the man's name has not been disclosed.
According to police spokesperson Constable Siyabonga Nkwanyana, the man arrived intoxicated at a home in March, where his daughter was staying with her aunt.
Read the full version of the ' KZN man sentenced to life in prison for raping his daughter' article.
The following morning, the aunt noticed the girl struggling to walk. When she asked what had happened, the child told her that her father had raped her.
Police opened a rape case and assigned it to Sergeant Richard Gilden from the Greytown Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit.
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