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** MEDIA STATEMENT
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** Unacceptable for rape accused lawyer to continue practising law
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** For Immediate Release
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Sonke Gender Justice is outraged to learn that a South African attorney Carel Benjamin Schoeman, who is charged with 26 counts of rape, exploitation of children, human trafficking and kidnapping among others, is still practicing law. Schoeman, who is accused of buying a teenage girl from her mother and using her as a sex slave, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

“The levels of sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls remain very high in South Africa. It is totally unacceptable when even officers of the courts are caught committing such brutality’’ said Bafana Khumalo, Co-Executive Director, Sonke Gender Justice.
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