The prominent young e.tv actor
from TV soap Scandal! arrested in a
sex den raid on Thursday by police in the East Rand will appear in court today.
The 21-year old actor who appears in e.tv’s
most watched TV show produced by Ochre Moving Pictures luring 4.5 milion
viewers on weeknights, was arrested on Thursday during the brothel raid in
Springs after a 25-year old woman managed to escape the sex den in Springs,
east of Johannesburg, and fled to the police.
The woman who told police that she is fearing
for her life, has since been taken to a place of safety.
Seventeen people – 11 women and 6 men ranging
in age between 19 and 43 – were arrested and charged with sexual exploitation
and human trafficking, with TVwithThinus that understands that police found a
large number of condoms on the premises.
The group including the actor who can't yet
be named, will appear in the Springs Magistrate’s Court later today, charged
under the Sexual Offences Act.
Police recently did another brothel bust in the
same area where five girls were freed after they were held as teenage sex
slaves in what was disguised as a barber shop.
Gauteng police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele
told me on Friday morning that the escaped woman ran from the brothel to
the police. “She pointed out the brothel and that’s why the police went and
raided the brothel”.
According to Kay Makhubele the preliminary police
investigation identified the one person arrested as a TV actor in e.tv’s Scandal!.
e.tv in response to a media enquiry told me on Thursday evening that “e.tv is aware of the stories and
speculation surrounding the arrest of an actor, but has received no further
details at this stage".
"The channel will respectfully allow due
process to take place,” said Vasili Vass, e.tv’s head of corporate affairs.
