New crime: Rape Blackmail

Yet another of those incredulous "Only in the New! Improved! South Africa!™" stories.

Read carefully, and please, because this blog is about awareness, I urge you to pass on this information to loved ones. Stay ahead of the criminals. It could save their lives.

Just as with the umbrella alarm sensor avoidance technique, a new crime is doing the rounds. Black women converging on white males, stripping off and threatening to lay charges of rape if the male does not hand over money.

Now, I think we all know the potential consequences of landing in jail even for one night. The victim is often too afraid to run the risk and pays up.

We've written about female rapists here and here but this crime tactic is a first, even for me. We really are setting new standards in the world of crime.

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Kinross Police Station: - (Pic) Vanderbijlpark businessman Johan Oosthuizen (63) and wife Ria.

Mr Oosthuizen narrowly escaped a blackmail trap that had been set by five black women. The women climbed onto his bakkie (pickup) when he stopped at Leandra intersection on the N17.

Beeld newspaper reports that this blackmail method is intended to shake down white male motorists who are perhaps not alert when stopping at intersections. The women force their way into vehicles, threaten to tear off clothes and lodge complaints of rape unless the men give them money. Faced with the prospect of a large number of 'female witnesses' willing to testify in sworn statements, such men often just pay up, fearing that they'll be thrown into police holding cells and charged with rape, police said.

Oosthuizen was driving his single-cab, fully-laden bakkie between Kinross and Vanderbijlpark on the N17 when a black woman knocked on his passenger window at the stop-sign of the Leandra-intersection, demanding to be given a ride.

Oosthuizen never picks up hitchhikers and certainly did not intend doing it that time either, he said. However the window was slightly open and the woman managed to get her hand through, opening the door from within.

"I was still gesticulating to her that I didn't have room for hikers, when another woman climbed onto the loaded bakkie in the rear, briefly drawing my attention away. The woman next to the door had put her hand through a narrow gap in the window managing to open the passenger door from within," he said.

In a blink, she was seated next to him on the passenger seat. Moments later, four women had climbed onto the boxes, squeezing into the empty spaces on the back of the bakkie.

The woman in front demanded that he give them money. She grabbed the vehicle's keys as another woman began taking her clothes off, the other women informing him that they would turn him in to the police for rape if he didn't give them money; also implying that they had 'friends at the police station'.

"You rich Free State farmers rape us women"
The woman removing her clothes said, "we'll tell your wife what you did." Another taunted him, "We know the cops around here, oupa (grandpa), you rich Free State farmers always come here to rape us women."

Oosthuizen said he felt threatened and humiliated but had devised a plan. Promising he would go and draw money at a cash point (ATM), he drove the women to a deserted petrol station's cashpoint and then used a fake PIN. Convinced the machine was broken, the women told him to drive on to the next cashpoint. Oosthuizen instead drove to the nearest police station, screeching to a stop, screaming, honking loudly. When the police rushed out, the women jumped off and disappeared.

Police superintendent Eugene Opperman said such crimes are generally not reported to the police 'because the men feel so humiliated and threatened.'

He urged men to turn these women in for trying to blackmail and threaten them -- not to be embarrassed about it so that such practices would stop.

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