A 37-year-old man was sentenced to an effective 15-years in prison after he sexually assaulted a 96-year-old woman at an old age home in Mossel Bay.
Mark Labuschagne, who worked as a handyman at the Adler Nest Retirement Village also exposed himself to a 79-year-old woman at the same facility.
During sentencing on Monday, Magistrate Francis Makamandela said Labuschagne had a previous conviction of rape for which he received a suspended sentence in 2007.
She said Labuschagne targeted not only women who should have been protected by society, but also elderly, helpless women, who were in the last years of their lives.
Both his victims have Alzheimer's.
When Labuschagne was arrested in September of 2020, police confiscated his phone where images of child pornography were retrieved.
According to police they still do not know the identity of the child in the photographs, but according to Labuschagne, he downloaded the images from a friend in Groot Brak.
The Court heard that Labuschagne only has Grade 11 and was once addicted to heroin and dagga.
In October last year, he pleaded guilty to all the charges against him.
He was sentenced to five years for sexual assault, three years for self-masturbation and seven years for being in possession of child pornography.
Magistrate Makamandela ordered that the sentences should not run concurrently, effectively putting him behind bars for 15 years.
His 96-year-old victim has since passed away.
