Activists and supporters gathered at the Johannesburg Magistrates Court to demand justice for lesbian rape survivor Nadine (Photos: Chaz Warries) A 30-year-old lesbian from Johannesburg was brutally attacked and raped by someone she regarded as a father figure. The 16 January assault of Nadine in Riverlea is being described as an incident of “corrective rape”, in which a person is raped to “fix” their queer sexuality.
It was first reported via a statement by Chaz Warries, an activist and LGBTQ spokesperson for the Patriotic Alliance political party.
According to Warries, the alleged perpetrator – who Nadine knew – lured her to take a walk with him to a nearby shop. However, before they reached their destination, the man allegedly started threatening her verbally and then began to choke her. “Nadine said this seemed very much like a planned attack because she is a lesbian,” said Warries, who has been assisting the victim in securing legal and psychosocial support. “She thought she was going to die as she was almost beaten into a pulp against the head with what she believed to be a gun.” The suspect allegedly continued to viciously beat her and then raped her.
A traumatised Nadine told Warries that she is in shock because she had looked up to the man as a father figure for most of her life. “It was a hectic ordeal,” Warries said to Mambaonline. “This thing broke her emotionally.
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