14 [29] However, her brother and other male family members discovered the complainant and returned her to the appellant. She herself was too scared of the men to interfere, but noting the child’s distress, begged her not to take her own life. After the male family members returned from delivering the complainant to the appellant for the second time, she was told that the complainant would be leaving for Cape Town with her new “husband” the following day. The complainant had telephoned her from Cape Town about a week or two later. She repeated that she did not want to be with the appellant and that he was violent. She asked the complainant to persevere until she was able to fetch her in Cape Town. The appellant called her shortly thereafter reporting that he had hit the complainant with a mop handle, but claimed that the complainant was not seriously injured. A day or so later the appellant contacted her again to report that the complainant had disappeared while he was at work. That night she was contacted by the police. [30] Reservist Constable Tengiwe testified that she was on duty on 2 March 2010. The complainant arrived at the trauma section of the police station with two police officials. The complainant told her that she had been forced into marriage in the Eastern Cape and recounted what had happened to her. The complainant limped, had a deep wound on her thigh that was starting to heal and a bruise on her back. The complainant told her that she had sustained these injuries when the appellant had assaulted her with a mop or broom