44 Year Old Man Arrested For Repeatedly Raping a Boy for Over 5 Years

When the country is trying to deal with Gender-Based Violence which has left a number of women and children killed, another unthinkable crime has been happening right under our nose.

Camillo Lombard, former director of the Cape Town Music Institute, the former National Deputy Chairperson for the Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa and the leader of the Top Dog band, has been arrested for allegedly raping a teenage boy for five years.

Lombard, who is married and a father of 2 boys, was arrested in his home this past Friday evening. The victim was sexually abused from the age of 14 for five years and was a student at the music institute.

Trevor Davids, who has worked in the South African entertainment and broadcasting industry for many years, said in a Facebook post:

Many fellow artists knew. Many turned the other way. He was a source of income, therefore they turned the other way to what they knew and some of them witnessed.

"Everybody ignored the victims. It is not about five years - it's for about many years. It's about Serial Predation. It's unforgivable," the Facebook post read.

The disappointed father of the victimized boy said he still can't believe the man he knew for over 30 years would do such things to his child.

I’ve known him for over 30 years and we sent our children to him because we were very close, so I couldn’t believe he did this. He penetrated and groomed him from the age of 14 because Camillo doesn’t live far from us, my son sometimes took a lift with him to (the music) school.

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