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The family of an eight-year old Port Elizabeth girl who survived an horrific rape two years ago will now get a new home.
This is the next step in the process of rehabilitation of the little girl, who recently underwent an operation to remove a colostomy bag she had been forced to wear following the brutal attack in December 2011.
Her assailant, 33-year-old Xolile Tose, is serving a life sentence for the crime.
Medical Social Worker, Pamela Rubushe says that since the operation earlier this month, the girl is happy and can't wait to move into the family's new home in Missionvale.
"The trauma you know, even for an adult to use a colostomy bag, it's far worst for a child because a child is a child and will play. All the contents of the bag will spill out and that is very embarrassing. So that was also a trauma for the parent who must wash the bag staying in a shack with no running water." says Rubushe.
Paediatric Surgeon, Dr Ricardo Gonzalez who peformed the operation to remove the colostomy bag, says physically she is fine, but there is still the psychological trauma to work though.
"The only problem now since her recovery is school, because she was for a time not going to school and of course the psychological trauma. She looks like very happy little girl now." says Gonzalez
