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Little Tazne van Wyk was last seen on February 7, 2020, when she left her Ravensmead home to buy a sweet just metres from her house.

Residents across the Cape Flats were up in arms about her disappearance, with child protection organisations spending days scouring the fields, bushes and all surrounding areas to find the eight-year-old girl.

Then, the accused, Moehydien Pangaker, was arrested on February 17 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, pointing out that Tazne’s body was in a stormwater drain along the N1 highway outside Worcester.

Pangaker committed this heinous crime while on parole for the murder of his own son in 2001.

The Bellville Regional Court convicted and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment for culpable homicide, kidnapping, and child neglect at the time.

In October, the Western Cape High Court found the 57-year-old degenerate guilty of 21 of the 27 charges laid against him, which included eight counts of rape of children, sexual assault, sexual exploitation of children, several counts of assault on a child, kidnapping, incest, desecration of a corpse, and absconding from parole.

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With the Tazne murder trial concluded, the State is calling for at least nine life sentences for this monster, notes IOL:

While Pangaker maintained his innocence throughout the trial, Judge Alan Maher did not mince his words as he delivered his judgment. He described Pangaker as a sexual predator who had a high sex drive and preyed on girls.

Senior State advocate Lenro Badenhorst described Pangaker as a monster who could not be tolerated in a civilised community:

Badenhorst submitted to the court that Pangaker was a repetitive offence who indiscriminately targeted girls for his sexual pleasure and therefore his moral blameworthiness was high.

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“The accused should be punished, with the most severe punishment possible, for his reprehensible actions. There are no reasonable prospects of rehabilitation for the accused.

“He is a danger to society and a long-term sentence would be an appropriate punishment for the offences. The chances to re-offend are very high. He has shown no remorse.”

Badenhorst also asked the court to consider the trauma the kidnapping, rape, murder and desecration of Tazne’s body had on the “traumatised” community:

“The community took the law into their hands and burnt down houses. There were rumours that the accused hid on the roof of a local school, the community stripped the roof of that school,” he said.

He further makes the point that Pangaker stole the life of an eight-year-old who had her whole life ahead of her, leaving her family devastated, and showing no remorse or regret for his heinous actions.

Moehydien Pangaker will be sentenced next month (on Valentine’s Day, February 14) in the Western Cape High Court.

[source:iol]