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The pain caused by the injuries suffered by a little Port Elizabeth who was brutally raped and sodomised two years ago, can be compared to a woman giving birth.
That was one of several heart-wrenching submissions made in the city's high court on Wednesdayby state prosecutor, Marlini Moodley, who called for a life sentence to be imposed on 33-year-old Xolile Tose.
He was found guilty by judge Jeremy Pickering of the brutal rape of the little girl, whose now eight years old and has to wear a colostomy bag as a result of the severe injuries she had suffered.
Moodley recounted the medical evidence of several doctors who said the little girl would have experienced excruciating pain during the 15-hour ordeal when she was abducted by Tose and brutalised in a house in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth, for 15 hours.
She says the little girl has a 50/50 chance of recovering fully.
Defence counsel Peet Schoonraad, said Tose was a first offender and called for lesser sentence than life imprisonment.
Judge Jeremy Pickering will pass sentence on Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, the court hear that a group of doctors in PE have offered to remove the colostomy bag and do reconstructive surgery on the child. The operatoin will be done either in Port Elizabeth at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town.
The NGO Section 27 is also fighting for the girl to be readmitted to school after she was ostracised because of the colostomy bag she's forced to wear. She's not been back to school since.
