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   From: losers@dnc.org   
      
   Second could be among the first alleged sex offenders in the   
   country to be prosecuted for a sexual assault that took place   
   several decades ago following a recent Constitutional Court   
   ruling.   
   Until recently, the victim of 61-year-old retired principal   
   Richard Second had believed that his rapist and former teacher   
   had died.   
      
   Sunday Times reports that the victim, who is now in his late-40s   
   and has been living in the US since 1996 found out last Monday   
   from a Facebook friend that Second was still alive after he   
   found a picture of him on social media.   
      
   Second was an art teacher at Dale College Boys’ Primary School   
   in King William’s Town, in the Eastern Cape in the early 1980s   
   when the rape of the then 12-year-old, standard 5 pupil   
   allegedly occurred.   
      
   The publication details a string of emails beginning on October   
   22 when the victim wrote to Second, stating “you may have   
   forgotten who I am but I am haunted by the mere thought of you,   
   and have been ever since you came to my bed that one night and   
   then took me to your room and sexually violated and raped me. I   
   was 12 years old! You took advantage of me and in sexually   
   assaulting me, you effectively destroyed my youth and life   
   forever. You were my art teacher and I used to love art. Used to   
   love spending time in your room building sculptures. I have   
   hated art and sculpting ever since.”   
      
   Like many victims, the former pupil told the publication that   
   the had not initially reported the incident because he blamed   
   himself.   
      
   However, after finding out that Second was not dead, he sent a   
   sworn statement to the police’s family violence, child   
   protection and sexual offences unit in Mossel Bay (where Second   
   currently resides) on Thursday 1 November.   
      
   Second, who retired as principal of Queen’s College Boys’   
   Primary School in Queenstown in February, confirmed that the e-   
   mails seen by the Sunday Times were authentic.   
      
   Although Second admits in one e-mail that the victim’s account   
   of what happened “is very accurate,” Sunday Times reports that   
   he told the publication he had not raped the boy. Instead, he   
   admitted to fondling him and another pupil.   
      
   In various other e-mails, Second went on to make admissions to   
   things such as choosing the victim because he was “trusting of   
   me, all alone and vulnerable,” being involved in a   
   “relationship” with another pupil that he described as “more   
   intense” and that what he did was sickening.   
      
   Southern Cape police spokesperson Capt Malcolm Pojie told the   
   publication that an indecent assault and sodomy case had been   
   registered and the docket would be transferred to King William’s   
   Town as the alleged offences had taken place there.   
      
   As a result of the Constitutional Court’s June ruling which   
   allows for sexual assault offences to no longer prescribe   
   (become unenforceable) after 20 years, Second could be among the   
   first alleged sex offenders in the country to be prosecuted for   
   a sexual assault that took place several decades ago.   
      
   Following the explosive revelation, Second’s former place of   
   employment promised to institute an awareness campaign for   
   parents and students of their school.   
      
   “The school will institute a heightened awareness campaign and   
   past and current learners and parents will be provided with   
   contact details,” chairman of the governing body of Queen’s   
   College Boys’ Primary School Brendan Raasch told Sunday Times.   
      
   https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/2031903/retired-   
   principal-admits-to-raping-pupils-30-years-later/   
       
      
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