The mother of the 8-year-old girl that Nicholas Ninow allegedly raped at the Dros restaurant has told the North Gauteng High Court how she watched as he wiped his private parts with her daughter’s clothes and flushed her panty down the toilet.
The mother was the State’s eighth witness, after the court heard her child’s testimony in camera earlier on.
In her audio testimony, the mother said they arrived at the restaurant after 2pm and the child went to the Kiddies corner to play.
After some time, she went to check on the child and asked the childminder where she was.
She was told the child had gone to the toilet but when she went to check, she couldn’t find her.
She and the childminder went back and as she called out for her daughter again, the child said, “Mommy, please help me.”
Ninow pleaded guilty to two counts of rape. Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency (ANA)
They pushed the door and a man said, “You are disturbing me.”
She said they kept on pushing the door until it opened.
“I carried my child out, and he came out naked and ran to the males’ toilet.
“I followed him to the males’ toilet and I found him cleaning his private parts with the child’s clothes (tights and panties).
“He quickly flushed the panties and I asked him why is he doing that and he didn’t respond.”
On Monday, Ninow pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, possession of illegal substances and defeating the ends of justice; but not guilty to assault.
He says he was in the female bathroom to use the drug CAT.