In an all-too-familiar scenario, a gay Free State man who was raped claims that he was treated with contempt by police when he reported the incident. Victor*, a 28-year old-man from Welkom, has told MambaOnline that he was raped in the early evening of 28 August in Riebeeckstad, Welkom, behind a primary school.
The alleged perpetrator was someone he’d know for only a few days. According to the victim, the man told him that he was entitled to force himself on him. “He told me that he is a man, and was doing me a favour by approaching me. [That] I’m not loved and he will do as he pleases,” says Victor.
Traumatised, he went to Riebeeckstad Police Station to report the attack that same evening. However, instead of being assisted with