Windhoek
The condition of the 14-year-old girl found unconscious two weeks ago in a pool of blood with severe head injuries has not improved.
The minor girl, whose name is withheld on ethical grounds, was found naked and with a severely swollen face by a male adult in Lafrenz Industrial where she lay bleeding.
The victim is a resident of Okahandja Park informal settlement, where she lived with her mother. Following the attack on her the girl was admitted to Katutura State Hospital. She has been unable to speak since.
Police spokesperson Inspector Slogan Matheus told New Era her condition is still the same as it was when she was first admitted to hospital. “We didn’t manage to speak to her. She is not talking,” Matheus said.
Due to her condition the police have not been able to obtain a statement from her to get information about her attacker. As a result no arrest has been effected.
The police suspect the child was raped and that the offender attempted to kill her by hitting her over the head with a rock.
The girl, who was in the company of her mother earlier that night while visiting relatives in Okahandja Park, was viciously attacked while on her way home to fetch a jersey as she was feeling cold. Her mother earlier told New Era last week that when her daughter failed to return in time she followed the teenager home but could not find her anywhere. The mother started looking for her child, but to no avail. She continued looking on Saturday morning, but had no success in finding her child.
At 16h00 she went to the police station to report her daughter missing and the police informed her that a girl was found at Lafrenz and that she should go to the hospital to see if it is her child. She found her daughter severely bruised and unconscious on the hospital bed.
New Era further learned that the teenage girl was due to start Grade 1 two weeks ago at a school outside Windhoek.
A letter seen by this reporter stated that she has been living with her unemployed mother on the farm and had not been attending school.
The headmaster where the girl-child was supposed to start school indicated that she showed signs that she would be able to cope in school as she could already count and write some words.