Knysna Child Rape Case Postponed

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Adrian Wilson-Forbes Knysna Child Rape Case

The trial of a Knysna businessman facing 79 charges, including statutory rape, was postponed by the Thembalethu Magistrate's Court, in George, on Wednesday.

Adrian Wilson-Forbes, 60, will appear again on Monday. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of statutory rape, abduction, indecent assault, trafficking persons for sexual purposes, and making child pornography.

The case started on Monday, when evidence was presented by police officers from the family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit in George.

Wilson-Forbes allegedly abducted an 11-year-old boy from the Garden Route mall in George in 2001 and took him to a local dam where he allegedly exposed his genitals and offered him money to have sex with him. The boy was allegedly indecently assaulted.

He allegedly offered the boy money to find him young girls for sex.

Constable Adri Koeries testified on Tuesday about the alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl on March 29, 2012.

She said a man confessed to her that he had procured three girls for sexual purposes for Wilson-Forbes in return for money.

The first two girls were abducted in 2001 and 2002, and the third in March last year. All three were aged between eight and nine at the time.

Koeries testified the man had photographs on his cellphone of the alleged rape in March, which led to Wilson-Forbes' arrest in May.


Source : Sapa /str/mv/th/dd/clh
Date : 27 Feb 2013 17:04

 

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Knysna man appears on child rape charges

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-cou...-on-child-rape-charges-1.1479564#.UTJHclfJL5w

His next alleged victim was to be a five-year old girl, but the determined actions of a police officer stopped him in his tracks.

This emerged during the trial of Knysna businessman Adrian Wilson-Forbes, 60, charged with 79 counts, including statutory rape, abduction, indecent assault, trafficking of persons for sexual purposes and child pornography, which got under way in George this week.

He is being tried in connection with a series of events, dating back to 2001 and which were described in detail this week in the Western Cape High Court trial, sitting at the

Thembalethu Magistrate’s Court, just outside George.

Wilson-Forbes, 60, faces possible multiple life sentences should he be found guilty.

The charges relate to the abduction of an 11-year-old boy from the Garden Route Mall in George, who Wilson-Forbes allegedly took to a local dam, where he offered him money in exchange for sex. The boy was allegedly indecently assaulted.

The accused is alleged to have subsequently offered the boy money to find two young girls for sexual purposes. The boy allegedly took photographs of Wilson-Forbes engaging in sexual acts with the girls.

In March last year, Wilson-Forbes allegedly again contacted his original victim, who is now an adult, with a request that he find him another under-age girl.

The eight-year-old girl was taken to Herolds Bay, near George, where she was allegedly raped.

The original victim took photographs and it was at this point that he decided to go to the police.

Giving testimony on Tuesday before Judge Patricia Goliath, Constable Adri Koeries said she was the first police officer to be alerted as the activities of the alleged paedophile, when the original victim alerted her. He chose her because he knew her.

“I received a call from our service centre saying he would only talk to me. When I contacted him, he was sounding very panicky, saying ‘a child is dead’. He started to cry, saying he must speak out. He forwarded a photo to me on my cellphone and I contacted my commander,” Koeries said.

When the original victim was taken in for questioning, he showed the police numerous photos on his cellphone. It was confirmed that the eight-year-girl was still alive, and the case was handed over to the FCS unit.

“He told us he had taken other children to the man and that he was supposed to take a five year old next as he was going to be compensated more.

“He said the younger the child, the more money he gets. I went back to work, but the situation haunted me,” Koeries told the court.

So she decided to find the eight-year-old victim.

“I know the community and he had told me the child’s name. I went out and started asking around.”

Within hours she located the victim. The parents weren’t aware of the attack.

All the alleged victims, whose identities are being protected, are expected to testify in the trial.

Prior to Koeries’s evidence, the police’s FCS officer Warrant Officer Vernon Sparks, and FCS Commander Captain Wilhelm October, gave testimony about the search and seizure of evidence at Wilson-Forbes’s Knysna home.

This was followed by evidence from Warrant Officer Kelvin Heynes, of the Outeniqua Dog Unit, regarding the search of the accused’s vehicle.

Throughout the week the former businessman, Wilson-Forbes, cut a lonely figure in the dock.

Dressed in designer jeans and a black jacket with the collar pulled up, he stared straight ahead except for the occasional glance around the courtroom, empty except for media and court personnel. He showed little or no emotion throughout.

After the defence’s cross-examination of Koeries on Wednesday, the trial was postponed to Monday.

 

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I can't see if he's out on bail or not ?

 

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Judge denies bail for man in sex case

http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/judge-denies-bail-for-man-in-sex-case-1.1355727

Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has denied bail to alleged paedophile Adrian Wilson-Forbes, saying: “He’s a monster, he’s a sex predator. Society doesn’t need someone like this. I have no sympathy for him.”

Judge Hlophe heard Wilson-Forbes’s bail appeal in the Western Cape High Court yesterday against a George Magistrate’s Court decision in June refusing him bail.

But following brief argument by Wilson-Forbes’s advocate, William King, Judge Hlophe immediately dismissed the appeal.

He did not hear arguments from State advocate Evadne Kortjé, saying he had no reason to hear more on the matter.

Wilson-Forbes, of Knysna, faces 36 charges, including rape, child trafficking, sexual assault, abduction and possession and production of child pornography.

King argued that his client was almost 60 – Wilson-Forbes is 59 – and had lived an “exemplary life”. He had a clean slate because he had not been convicted of a crime, nor had any complaint been lodged against him.

There was now the perception that his client was a paedophile and, because there was “no hope for paedophiles”, he should be locked up. “The question arises: ‘What we’re incarcerating an innocent man?’ “ said King.

Judge Hlophe questioned this, saying Wilson-Forbes had been

found in possession of “shocking” pictures. The judge was referring to the child pornography seized during a raid of Wilson-Forbes’s home.

According to an affidavit by investigating officer Martin Borg, a sequence of pornographic pictures was found on the memory card of a digital camera. The pictures allegedly showed Wilson-Forbes with an eight-year-old girl, one of four George children he is alleged to have abused.

Judge Hlophe asked: “If he’s an innocent man, what is he doing with this?”

He believed the State had la “very strong” case.

“These pictures are shocking. It’s a disgrace, actually.”

King asked the court not to “pre-judge” the matter, adding that other accused had been let out on bail for crimes that were far worse.

But Judge Hlophe found that, if convicted, Wilson-Forbes would be a candidate for life imprisonment.

He is alleged to have abused an 11-year-old boy, said to be his first victim, in 2001, allegedly offering him money in return for sexual favours. The State alleges he used the boy to lure a nine-year-old girl and eight-year-old girl in 2002, and an eight-year-old girl in March this year.

Borg’s affidavit read: “The first complainant was manipulated and used by (the) accused to recruit other minors in order for the accused to commit sexual acts with them … the accused would also take pornographic photographs of the children or instruct the first complainant to take photographs of the accused while he is sexually engaged with these children.”

King said the courts could not take away Wilson-Forbes’s freedom based on Borg’s affidavit, which he said was based on hearsay and speculation.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s regional spokesman, Eric Ntabazalila welcomed Judge Hlophe’s decision. He said the State had opposed bail because Wilson-Forbes had not been born in SA – but in Zimbabwe – and was therefore a flight risk. There was also the fear that he would interfere with or intimidate witnesses because he knew the area well and had contacted his first complainant before.

Wilson-Forbes’s attorney, Salvatore Puglia, said:

“At the end of the day, we’re blessed with the constitution, which says everyone is innocent until proved guilty.”

Wilson-Forbes is expected to appear in the magistrate’s court on August 13.

 

[daveza]

Cool, I'll sleep better now.

 

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Cool, I'll sleep better now.

Yep, he sounds almost like the Hannibal Lecter of the Paedophile World.

 

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Accused Claims Extortion

Child-rape accused Adrian Wilson-Forbes has claimed to be the "victim" of an extortion campaign thought up by his accusers, it was reported on Tuesday.

The Cape Times reported that Forbes, 60, denied 79 charges against him in the George Magistrate's Court on Monday.

The charges included rape, statutory rape, indecent assault and abduction allegedly committed between 2001 and 2012.

According to the newspaper, Forbes told the court one of his alleged male victims organised prostitutes for him.

He said he met the boy George five or six years ago, and did not sexually assault him.

When they met again two months later, the boy had a girl with him and said he could pay for sex with her. He refused.

Two months after that, he agreed to pay for sex.

He reportedly told the court they drove to Victoria Bay, where the girl "in her 20s" performed a sexual act on him while the boy sat in the back of his bakkie.

Overwhelmed with guilt, he decided to end his relationship with the boy and his sexual liaisons with girls.

According to The Cape Times, he claimed the boy, who was now in his early 20s, contacted him in February last year, and that this was when the "blackmail and extortion" began.


Source : Sapa /je/fg/clh
Date : 16 Apr 2013 08:29