Nine young girls, a boy, and two women are alleged to have fallen victim to rapists in their communities last week.

* At Mariental, two men, aged 23 and 35, were arrested for the rape of two minor girls at the Municipal Abattoir on Saturday.

The Police reported that the two men met their two victims, aged 9 and 10, at an unknown place and gave them alcohol to drink.

After intoxicating their victims, the men then apparently led them to the abattoir, where they raped the girls.

The girls reported the incident to their parents, and both men were arrested on separate rape charges.

* On Thursday, Police at Otjiwarongo arrested a 43-year-old man after he allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl repeatedly in the bushes at the Orwetoveni location earlier in the day.

* On the same day, a 33-year-old man from Rehoboth was arrested after he was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in a riverbed near the town's cemetery.

* Another man from Otjiwarongo, aged 41, was arrested on Saturday in connection with rape - he is accused of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman at a house in the Orwetoveni location.

* Police in the Hardap Region are trying to trace a 51-year-old man, who is suspected of raping a six-year-old boy at Hoachanas.

* Last Wednesday, a 39-year-old man was arrested at Swakopmund for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl.

* A day later, on Thursday, two men aged 40 and 42 were arrested after they allegedly raped a 33-year-old mentally disabled woman at Omaruru.

* A 54-year-old man from Omaruru was arrested this week, after allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl at a village.

* Police are trying to trace a suspected rapist from Mariental, after a 15-year-old girl revealed this week that she had been raped repeatedly between March and June.

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