Gangrape of baby, daughter, mother a pleasurable past time for black men: Judge
Johannesburg: A South African judge has stirred outrage on social media and is facing backlash for allegedly claiming that ‘gangrape of a baby, daughter’ or one’s own mother is a ‘pleasurable past time’ for black men.
Mabel Jansen, a High Court Judge in Pretoria made a string of shocking comments while debating how women are treated by black men with social activist Gillian Schutte on Facebook.
"I still have to meet a black girl who was not raped at about 12. I am dead serious. Murder is also is not a biggy. And gang rapes of baby, daughter and mother [are] a pleasurable pastime,” the judge said during their discussion.
Appalled at the thoughts of ‘a person who is directly in charge of passing judgement on people’, Schutte decided to publish the entire 2015 conversation, triggering massive outrage.
Activist Schutte published the Facebook discussion for everybody to view.
In the conversation, the judge says, "in their culture a woman is there to pleasure them. Period". Jansen also says that many African mothers are so brainwashed that they teach their daughters it’s their father’s right to ‘be the first’.
Facing criticism, the High Court judge took to Twitter to clarify her stand and said that her statements where taken out of context.
"What I stated confidentially to somebody in a position to help has been taken completely out of context and referred to specific court cases," she said in her tweet.
However, Schutt in her post categorically states that the statements made by the judge were a part of public discussion.
Judge Jansen has landed herself in a lot of trouble due to the public outcry and a complaint has been lodged against her by the Chairperson of the Advocates of Transformation.
The judicial service commission of South Africa released a press statement saying that a proposal has been made to send Judge Jansen on special leave and it has been forwarded to the Minister of Justice and correctional services for consideration.
