A Mitchells Plain father has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his teenage daughter and seven of her friends.
Cops saved the 49-year-old suspect from angry Lentegeur community members baying for his blood on Thursday.
It is alleged the man exposed his penis to the eight girls, aged nine to 16 years old.
An aunt of one of the girls says: “The eldest is his daughter whom we suspect that he used to lure the girls to his house.
“This had apparently been going on for two years and at the time, my niece was only seven.
“We didn’t know anything because they didn’t talk.”
A 13-year-old girl spilled the beans on Wednesday night.
“Her daughter informed her that that afternoon the man masturbated until he ejaculated.
“They were visiting the suspect’s daughter and while they were sitting on the stoep, he came out with his penis in his hand, and they ran away.
“But my friend’s daughter went back to the house and watched TV. The man came back and touched her shoulders and then after that, she went to tell her mother.
“Last Monday he also tried to place his penis against the same girl’s bum.”
She says they went to confront the suspect on Thursday but his wife blocked them at the gate: “We asked to see her daughter because we felt she knew everything.
“When we spoke to her, she told us the truth; that her father had done the same thing to her.
“The community members were very angry and they wanted to beat him up but the police came and took him away.”
SAPS’ Joseph Swartbooi says the suspect is expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrates’ Court on a charge of sexual assault today.
“The matter will be investigated by the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) unit,” he says.