Tormented beyond limits

15 August 2014 - 02:36 By Sipho Masombuka
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A teenage girl is suffering from concussion after a boy attacked her with a brick because she is a lesbian.

This is the second attack on the Atteridgeville teenager in two months.

In May, the Grade 10 pupil had to change schools and missed the June exams after a group of boys pulled her pants down and threatened to rape her.

On Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy attacked her when she fetched her younger sister from school.

Writing to The Times yesterday, the teenager described what she has to endure at the hands of her peers.

"I am 18 years old. I am a girl, but I see myself as a boy. I started feeling different when I was six. People started calling me lesbian, which I did not like," she wrote.

The teenager's mother has complained several times to her daughter's school, opened a case with police and sent her daughter for counselling.

"I am losing my child and I have no one to turn to. I cannot get any justice because I am told the people who are making my daughter's life hell cannot be punished because they are minors," she said.

A police detective said the docket would be referred to the director of public prosecutions for a decision on whether or not to prosecute the boy.

He did say, however, that in all likelihood the boy would be put through a diversion programme as he was a minor.

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