11 simply wanted to make money out of him. Her response was to ask him not to do anything of the kind to her own children, whereupon he assured her that he would not. Little did she know that her children had already been molested by him. When Mr B was informed by H about the complainant’s revelations, she and Mr B had decided that, should the appellant return to their home, Mr B would speak to him ‘in a Christian manner to sort the matter out.’ However, when A told her, on the morning of Sunday 19 January 2003, that the appellant was coming to visit them that afternoon, she realised that she could no longer permit him to be in their home. She called A to her and, telling him that she would never reproach him, asked him whether the appellant had ‘messed with him’. A replied that the appellant had ‘played with his penis’ and she then realised that ‘everything’ was true. [22] According to Mrs B, after the complainant and A had left the house that afternoon, she had asked the appellant how he could have molested her two sons when the whole family loved him and cared about him. The appellant turned deathly pale and kept repeating that he was sorry. She informed him that he must go and that she did not want to see him ever again. He kept on saying that he was sorry and then left the house. She still felt heartsore and did not understand how he could have done such a thing. She reiterated that she felt sorry for him. [23] Mrs B testified that it was a psychologist who had reported the matter to the police. Both children had been taken to see this psychologist approximately a week after her confrontation with the appellant. They had two sessions with him. He then said that they must first ‘get through the court case’ before continuing with the sessions. After the boys had testified, both of them had immediately been taken back to the psychologist. [24] After the complainant’s parents had become aware of what had happened, the matter was reported to the police and the complainant was medically examined by a Dr Winn on 15 February 2003. The complainant had informed Dr Winn that he had been sodomised by a person known to him three times during the year 1999 to 2000. All the findings flowing from the doctor’s examination of the complainant showed signs of anal penetration. During his anal examination of the complainant, he had found an old abrasion and an old scar on the skin surrounding the anus; fissures and

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