NW serial rapist handed five life sentences
North West authorities have welcome the multiple life sentences handed down to 42-year-old Michael Motsamai Segale by the Rustenburg Regional Court on Tuesday.
According to police spokesperson Aafje Botma, Segale was convicted of multiple rapes between April and June 2013.
“The rapes were committed at Boitekong and Lethabong village outside Rustenburg, whereas Segale who is from Lethabong village, targeted young girls aged between 5 and 15.”
Botma said the Segale caught his victims by asking the young girls for directions.
“As part of his method of committing these crimes, the accused would ask the girls to show him certain places and upon directing, him he would cunningly persuade the victims to accompany him.
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“The unsuspecting girls would in the end be instructed to undress and raped after being threatened with a knife.”
During his trial Botma says it was revealed that Segale, who was arrested in July 2013, was on parole after being sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for rape in 2003.
“Subsequent to the arrest, the accused was linked with all the rape cases through the DNA. He was ultimately sentenced to five life terms on four counts of rape.”
