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0:00hey guys it's Bella welcome back to my
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0:03wonderful day I hope you're having a
0:04wonderful start to your week in today's
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0:07another mystery Monday case but this is
0:10not a mystery case it's a solved case
0:12we're going to be talking about the case
0:13of Alison bother and this case is
0:16actually unbelievable I've had so many
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0:20because it is actually mind-blowing
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2:01into today's case so Alison bother was
2:03born on the 22nd of September in 1967 in
2:07Port Elizabeth two parents Brian and
2:09Claire the family split up early on
2:11leaving her mother Claire to care for
2:14both Alison and her brother Neil who was
2:1618 months older than Allison and she had
2:18a fairly normal childhood eventually she
2:21went on to attend the Collegiate High
2:22School for Girls which was also located
2:24in Port Elizabeth she wasn't like super
2:27academic or like you know she wasn't
2:28really that into school
2:31um or you know driven to any particular
2:33career path but despite this she did
2:35serve as the head girl for the school
2:37and then once she graduated she
2:39underwent secretarial studies for a year
2:41before going and traveling around the
2:43world for four years she eventually
2:46returned to Port Elizabeth and started
2:48working as an insurance broker and also
2:50just a little side note but Port
2:52Elizabeth in 2019 the name was changed
2:56to yeah I think I don't act I've like
2:59Googled it the pronunciation and I
3:01really cannot get I just can't form the
3:04word properly I don't know but in 1994
3:06when this case occurred it was still
3:09called Port Elizabeth and it had a
3:11population of about 900 000 it has a lot
3:14of great beaches a lot of tourists so
3:17it's a really popular holiday
3:18destination it was also rated South
3:20Africa's most safe City so it's also
3:23known as The Friendly City so like I
3:25said this case took place in 1994 it
3:28happened on the 18th of December in 1994
3:30to be exact and Alison bother was 27
3:33years old at the time it was a Sunday
3:35and Alison had spent the day with her
3:37friends at the beach and then after the
3:39beach they decided to go back to
3:40Alison's apartment to hang out then at
3:42around 1am Alison drove her friend Kim
3:45home and when she got back to her
3:46apartment she realized her typical
3:48parking spot had been taken so she went
3:50and just parked up the road it was
3:52within walking distance of her house but
3:54once she parked a man with a knife
3:56forced his way into her car and forced
3:59her over into the passenger seat he
4:01opened the driver's side door and he
4:02held a knife to Alison's throat and said
4:05move over or I'll kill you the attacker
4:07then took control of her car and he told
4:09her I don't want to hurt you I just want
4:11to use your car for an hour while the
4:12man was driving Alison and her kidnapper
4:15made a small talk obviously she doesn't
4:18want to make small talk but she's just
4:20trying to stay alive at this point she
4:22tells the man that her name is Susan and
4:24that she has a boyfriend waiting at home
4:26who will probably start to worry about
4:28her soon and her kidnapper tells her
4:30that his name is Clinton Alison told
4:32Clinton that she wouldn't report him to
4:34the police if he would just let her out
4:35of the car and he refused he said he
4:37wasn't going to hurt her and he took her
4:39to a second location where he then
4:41picked up an accomplice the two men then
4:43took Alison to a secluded location
4:46outside or just outside of Port
4:48Elizabeth Allison at the time obviously
4:50didn't know where this was but it was a
4:52place called nordhook I'll put a little
4:53map on the screen now just so you can
4:55get an idea of how close they were to
4:57the city center and I'll also give a
4:59trigger warning now if you want to skip
5:01over the graphic parts of this case it
5:03does involve strong violence and sexual
5:05assault it is so incomprehensible And
5:09discussing what happened to her but I
5:11think it's important to talk about this
5:12case and what happened to her and to
5:15share her story so the men told Alison
5:18that they were going to rape her and
5:20they asked if she would resist and you
5:22know she was powerless she just wanted
5:24to do anything she could to help herself
5:26in this situation so she said no that
5:29she wouldn't resist they then forced her
5:31to remove her clothes and the man who
5:34said that his name was Clinton forced
5:36her to perform oral sex on him and then
5:38he forced the same back on her and then
5:41he proceeded to rape her once he was
5:43finished he then invited his accomplice
5:45to do the same who then also raped
5:49Alison with his hands around her throat
5:52after which they then suffocated her
5:54until she was unconscious they then
5:56disemboweled her she was stabbed at
5:59least 30 times in her abdomen and her
6:02pubic area although this number could be
6:05in excess of 37 times miraculously
6:08Allison actually survived all of this
6:10but the men weren't done with her yet
6:12they then slashed her throat 17 times
6:15and when they were done one of the men
6:17said do you think she's dead to which
6:19the other man responded nobody can
6:21survive that one of the men who attacked
6:23Alison was particularly obsessed with
6:26mutilating her reproductive organs so
6:29clearly like there was something going
6:30on here this guy just had a deep-seated
6:33hatred for women so after the attack the
6:35two men drove away and as they did they
6:38threw Allison's clothes out of the
6:39window but what they didn't know at the
6:41time is that Alison somehow survived
6:44this brutal attack when Alison regained
6:47Consciousness she had no idea where she
6:50was she was naked lying in sin in the
6:53middle of nowhere and despite her
6:55injuries and despite everything she had
6:57gone through she actually wrote what she
6:59believed her attackers names were in the
7:02sand so that if she didn't make it these
7:05men would hopefully face some sort of
7:06consequences and the men's names that
7:08she wrote were Franz and tiens and then
7:11underneath their names and this is like
7:13honestly one of the most heartbreaking
7:15things like it actually choked me up
7:17when I was looking into this but under
7:19their names she wrote in the sand I love
7:21you Mum now after writing the men's
7:23names in the sand she just kind of laid
7:25there for a while because obviously her
7:27injuries were so incredibly severe I
7:30cannot even
7:32comprehend it like I can't even imagine
7:34the strength that it took her to then
7:36find the will to get up and move despite
7:41what she had gone through and despite
7:43her injuries and probably the blood loss
7:46like everything would have just been in
7:48Daze and so confusing I I can't even
7:50begin to imagine but after laying there
7:53for a while she found the will to get up
7:55she saw cars headlights in the distance
7:57and she thought if I can just get to
7:59that road then I might have a chance of
8:01survival initially she tries to crawl to
8:04this road or to where the headlights are
8:06and she realizes that's not gonna work
8:08so she tries to stand up and this is
8:10when she realizes just how severe her
8:13injuries are because when she stands up
8:15her head actually flaws back because she
8:18has been nearly decapitated so her head
8:21cannot stay upright it's like hanging on
8:24by a thread and she has to hold her head
8:27on as she walks towards these headlights
8:30and not only did she have to hold hold
8:32her head with one hand but she could
8:34feel her organs coming out of her
8:37abdomen so she had this denim shirt and
8:39she had to use the other hand to hold
8:41this denim shirt against her organs to
8:44keep her organs inside her stomach so
8:46with one hand she's holding her organs
8:48in and with the other hand she's holding
8:50her head upright on her head while
8:53walking towards these headlights like I
8:55actually just kind of fathom it I cannot
8:56what's also crazy is that her windpipe
8:59had actually been crushed so regularly
9:01she wouldn't be able to breathe but the
9:04slashes across her throat actually
9:06created an opening that allowed her to
9:09breathe her vision was also coming in
9:10and out at some point she could only see
9:12black which only made it more difficult
9:14for her to get to the road and it was a
9:16really long and painful thing for her to
9:19get to this road and when she did get to
9:21the road she just collapsed in the
9:23middle of it she couldn't make it any
9:24further and she just laid there and
9:26hoped that somebody would stop and would
9:29find her there and help her and it was 2
9:31am by this point that she got to the
9:33road and thankfully there were still
9:35cars driving around one of which kind of
9:38started driving up towards her stopped
9:40in the middle of the road and at this
9:42point she was kind of overthinking
9:43everything she was like could this have
9:45been a really bad idea could this be the
9:47men who kidnapped me but she was willing
9:50to take that risk because it was the
9:52only chance she really had so this car
9:55stopped in front of her a little bit
9:56away from her in the middle of the road
9:58and nobody got out of the car so she
10:00kind of just put her hand up and sort of
10:02started waving and then this car just
10:05drove off and left her there you know in
10:07a way this is kind of a hard sort of
10:09situation because obviously this woman
10:12is so desperately in need of help but I
10:15feel like you would sort of be scared
10:17that it's someone setting you up like
10:19somebody has just got got fake blood on
10:21themselves they're lying in the middle
10:22of the road and as soon as you go to
10:24help them they like get up and like have
10:25a knife or something especially at 2AM
10:28in the morning like it's a bit like it's
10:30a bit scary but after what she went
10:32through I just feel like you would see
10:33her and know that this is real like the
10:36injuries that she had there's no way
10:38someone's faking that to set up a
10:40robbery you know but I also don't know
10:42what she looked like from the car's
10:44perspective like if she's lying down if
10:46they can't really see the injuries but
10:47the injury seems so bad I feel like they
10:49would have been able to see I don't know
10:50it's a very conflicting one thankfully
10:52though another car wasn't far behind and
10:54at 2 45 AM another car pulled up and
10:58thank God the guy in this car was a
11:00young man named Tian alert and he
11:02decided to stop and get out of the car
11:05and help Alison and by this point it had
11:07been about an hour and a half since she
11:10had first been abducted Tian got out of
11:12the car to go and help her but she could
11:14barely communicate because of her severe
11:17injuries she looked terrified and her
11:20eyes were bloodshot there were multiple
11:22other people in the car with Tien and
11:23thankfully one of them had a mobile
11:25phone and so they called emergency
11:28services to come and help and it's
11:30actually pretty lucky that somebody
11:31happened to have an mobile phone because
11:32this was 1994 like obviously mobile
11:35phones were not as common as they are
11:37today and what's also lucky is that Tian
11:39was a Veterinary student so he had kind
11:42of like a basic like medical
11:43understanding I guess enough so that he
11:46was able to help put Alison's thyroid
11:48back inside her body and then kind of
11:51take care of her until Emergency
11:52Services arrived and he was providing
11:55her with emotional and medical support
11:58until they did get there so he was
12:00trying to keep her awake with small talk
12:02even though she couldn't talk she
12:03couldn't respond she could squeeze his
12:06hand once for yes and twice for no and
12:09thank God he was there to do this thank
12:10God he was there to like keep her awake
12:12and keep her responding through these
12:14hand squeezes because Emergency Services
12:16it took them so long to come it took
12:19four phone calls and one hour and 45
12:22minutes until they came out and took
12:25Alison to the hospital and then on the
12:27way to the hospital apparently they were
12:29just like driving really slowly and Tian
12:31said them like can you guys go a bit
12:33faster like she is dying back there and
12:36they refused apparently there was just
12:38no sense of urgency I don't know if it's
12:40because they thought you know her
12:42injuries are so bad she's probably
12:43unable to be saved or what but there was
12:45just no sense of urgency like they just
12:48didn't care they were driving so slowly
12:50they took an hour and 45 minutes to come
12:52out there four phone calls before they
12:55came like it's just so unacceptable like
12:57Alison was literally Hanging On by a
13:00thread every second counts eventually
13:03they did get to the hospital like by the
13:06grace of God and one of the doctors who
13:08treated Alison he said that Allison's
13:11injuries were the most severe he had
13:14ever seen in his 16 years of practice
13:17when he and his colleagues were
13:20assessing her they realized she had been
13:22completely disemboweled there were Loops
13:24of her small intestines sitting on top
13:26of her stomach her abdomen had been
13:28completely contaminated with beach sand
13:30and charcoal and after inspecting her
13:32injuries further they realized that she
13:35would likely never be able to carry a
13:37child either the general surgeon who was
13:39called in to operate on Alison his name
13:41was Dr Dimitri Angelov and he was
13:44shocked by her injuries as well he said
13:46they gave a striking impression of
13:48Cruelty and you know doctors surgeons
13:50nurses I feel like they can be a little
13:53bit desensitized to injuries and that
13:55sort of thing because they see them all
13:56the time so when they are like genuinely
13:58shocked by injuries you know it's really
14:00bad I mean when she first arrived at the
14:03hospital I don't think anybody thought
14:05that she was going to be able to survive
14:07her injuries and they were completely
14:09shocked that she had even made it this
14:11far and despite the unlikelihood that
14:13she would make it the medical team did
14:16absolutely everything they could to save
14:18her as I mentioned Tian had actually
14:20pushed her thyroid back inside her body
14:22and as it turns out her thyroid had
14:25actually been cut in half which is like
14:27potentially fatal not potentially fatal
14:29it should be fatal because a small
14:31puncture or small cut is potentially
14:33fatal so it really goes to show you just
14:35how strong she is that she's been able
14:37to make it this far her intestines had
14:39been ruptured and punctured in several
14:42places and you know there were all of
14:44these stub wounds which somehow managed
14:46to miss all of her vital organs they
14:49began operating on Allison as soon as
14:51they possibly could and as they did so
14:53they had to meticulously clean every
14:55single one of her organs of the sand and
14:58the charcoal that was all in there and
15:01they had to do this before putting each
15:03of her organs back in place so this
15:05surgery lasted three hours miraculously
15:08Allison survived Dr Angelov puts her
15:11survival down to being a miracle but I
15:13do think that her surgeons and her
15:15doctors and her nurses really deserved
15:17the utmost respect for doing everything
15:20they could to save her I mean I do
15:23understand why they called it a miracle
15:25because I think you know despite the
15:27fact that they did everything they could
15:28it's a miracle that she even made it to
15:31the hospital alive despite her throat
15:33being slit 17 times and nearly
15:36decapitating her none of the major blood
15:38vessels or nerves in her neck were
15:41severed or damaged the stab wounds
15:44around her abdomen somehow didn't get
15:47any of her vital organs when the blade
15:49went through and it's also incredibly
15:51lucky that Alison didn't suffer any
15:54infections after the surgery as well but
15:56she wasn't completely out of the woods
15:58yet she was still you know practically
16:00on the brink of death despite all of
16:02this despite trying to recover in
16:04everything that she had gone through
16:05though she surprisingly remembered a lot
16:08of details from the attack and about her
16:11attackers which really helped police to
16:14track down her perpetrators not even 12
16:16hours after her attack she was awake in
16:19the hospital and able to talk to police
16:21and assist them with their investigation
16:23police were able to show her multiple
16:26photos of different potential suspects
16:28and she was able to point two of these
16:31photos out and say these were the two
16:33men that attacked me one of them was a
16:35man named Franz Detroit and the other
16:38one was a man named tian's Kruger and
16:40Alison was actually able to write the
16:43first names of these men on each of
16:45their corresponding photos both of these
16:47men were already known to police both
16:49had previously been arrested for rape
16:52France had actually been arrested for
16:55the rape of two women and tians had been
16:58arrested for the rape of one woman and
17:00they were both awaiting their trials and
17:01somehow while awaiting their trials for
17:03rape they were just like allowed out
17:06they were just like out
17:08raping another woman almost killing a
17:12woman while they awaited their trial I
17:14just do not understand I just don't know
17:16how that was allowed to happen and
17:18what's crazy is they didn't even have to
17:20pay bail they were just allowed out on
17:22their own recognizes while they waited
17:24for their trial for their rape trials I
17:28don't know it's just so mind-blowing to
17:29me because obviously they're just you
17:31know if they did rape these women then
17:33they're just free to go and do it again
17:36while they wait to be convicted of it I
17:39don't know like what is that how can you
17:41be suspected of two different rapes and
17:43you're just
17:46I actually have no words so how I get
17:49that at the time it's just alleged like
17:51they haven't been convicted of anything
17:52but when it's something as severe as
17:55rape and you're going to trial for it I
17:58just feel like you need to be held I'm
18:00like at a loss for words about this it's
18:02just so crazy to me the police's excuse
18:04for why France was allowed out was
18:07because apparently there was no evidence
18:09of the rape because the Survivor
18:11reported it a week after it happened and
18:13they also said he had a stable
18:14employment and a permanent address which
18:16I guess to them was a sign that he
18:19wasn't gonna flee or commit another rape
18:22somehow because he has a job and then
18:25obviously he was being accused of two
18:27different rapes and the second rape the
18:30reason they didn't hold him is because
18:33there was no investigating officer so
18:35when he and tions were brought in for
18:37this second rape they didn't know that
18:40France had previously
18:42been accused of another rape I don't
18:45know why they weren't detained for this
18:47second rape like even if they didn't
18:48know about the first one I don't know
18:50why they weren't attained for the second
18:52one at all they were both just like
18:54allowed to go out after doing it oh you
18:56guys were accused of rape no worries you
18:57go out do it again have fun now this
19:00part I thought was a little strange as
19:01well
19:02um even after Alison had identified the
19:06men and like you know identified their
19:08photos written their names on the back
19:10of their photos for identification they
19:13said that it would make the prosecution
19:15against them stronger if she could
19:17verbally identify them which you know
19:20for obvious reasons was going to be
19:21difficult she was almost decapitated she
19:24had a ventilation tube providing oxygen
19:27to her lungs so she couldn't talk the
19:30doctors also didn't want to remove these
19:32tubes so soon after surgery because they
19:35didn't want to damage her throat anymore
19:36but because you know officers were kind
19:39of insisting that this would make the
19:41prosecution stronger the doctors
19:43presented the idea to Alison and she
19:46said you know if we have to do it let's
19:48do it so doctors removed her ventilation
19:51tube from her throat and she was able to
19:53say my attackers were France and tions
19:56France and tians were arrested on the
19:5819th of December at approximately 5 a.m
20:01they were charged with an array of
20:02offenses including kidnapping rape and
20:05the attempted murder of Alison and the
20:08media labeled them the nordhook Ripper
20:10rapist one of the police officers who
20:13interviewed Franz initially said that
20:15France was confused when he was told he
20:17was being charged with attempted murder
20:19the officer explained that Alison had
20:21survived the attack and this is when
20:23France basically said well then there's
20:25nothing I can hide from you because she
20:27will obviously tell you everything that
20:28happened he then pulled a bloodstained
20:30ring from his pocket handed it to the
20:33officer and said this belonged to Alison
20:34obviously they wanted to test on this
20:36ring and confirmed that the blood on the
20:39ring did belong to Alison he also
20:41allegedly can confessed to raping a
20:44pregnant woman two weeks earlier and
20:46handed over a knife to the police that
20:48he had used in this attack so obviously
20:51this guy is just a literal scum of the
20:54earth I'm just gonna give a little bit
20:55of background information on him France
20:58and tians the two rapists who attempted
21:01to murder Alison like I said before even
21:04prior to this incident these guys were
21:06already on the police's radar for just
21:08being some of the most despicable humans
21:10to ever walk the planet I'm so glad that
21:13they were eventually caught but it's
21:14just so frustrating that's not even the
21:17right word like it's not even enough of
21:19a word to describe what it is but it's
21:21so frustrating what had to happen for
21:24them to be caught and how many women had
21:26to go through such heartbreaking things
21:28before these men were chords it was
21:30honestly really hard to research this
21:31case and look into this case because of
21:33how traumatic what these women had to go
21:35through is like the recounts of what
21:38they had to go through is devastating
21:40the first woman that Franz rape was a 20
21:43year old student and she's the one that
21:45took a week to come forward and the
21:47reason she took a week to come forward
21:49is because Franz threatened to kill her
21:51if she did speak up about what happened
21:53the second woman was a 21 year old
21:55pregnant woman and she came forward
21:57almost immediately despite the fact that
22:00France also threatened to kill her if
22:02she came forward as we know though while
22:04they were awaiting trial they were both
22:07let out no bail nothing so in 1994 when
22:11the attack against Allison happened
22:13France de trois was 26 years old he was
22:16the son of a police officer and he was
22:18raised in a Christian household he was
22:21expelled from eighth grade for setting a
22:23fire to a dormitory which encouraged his
22:25parents to move to the nearby town of
22:27Adelaide it was around this time that he
22:30supposedly became involved in Satanism
22:32something which actually turned out to
22:34be a major talking point of this case
22:36which I will touch on later Franz was a
22:38terrible student he failed 9th grade
22:40twice and I think failing 9th grade
22:42twice was the last straw for his parents
22:45because they sent him to the Army after
22:47this when he eventually left the Army
22:49his parents helped him get a job at a
22:51mine and welcome in the Free State and
22:54during this time here he married a woman
22:57and fathered a daughter although France
22:59later abandoned his family because his
23:01wife apparently didn't satisfy him
23:04sexually after abandoning his family he
23:06moved to Port Elizabeth where his
23:07parents helped him get another job as a
23:10driver for a chain of stationary shops
23:12he was eventually fired from this job as
23:14his employer found out that he had
23:16stolen money and for this he received a
23:19suspended sentence of three years after
23:21losing his job friends opened something
23:23called a shabeen which is like an
23:26illegal alcohol store and this is where
23:28he actually met tians who was a customer
23:31and they first came into contact about
23:34four months before the rape took place
23:37Franz went on to marry another woman who
23:40he fathered a son with this was his
23:42second child wild obviously but from
23:44what I understand this was the only
23:46child that lived with him at the time of
23:48Allison's attack because you know like I
23:50said he abandoned his other family
23:52tian's Kruger was only 19 years old when
23:55he and France raped Allison in 1994. his
23:58father had abandoned him and his mother
24:01shortly after his mother fell pregnant
24:03with him eventually she remarried but
24:05this was once again short-lived
24:08eventually another man came into the
24:09picture and the family moved to sitsi
24:12Karma which is on the south eastern
24:14coast of South Africa I did read reports
24:17online that this new stepfather may have
24:19been violent toward towns but I couldn't
24:21find a whole lot to back this claim up
24:24so take it with a grain of salt tian's
24:26allegedly did have quite a rough
24:28childhood though he was bullied for
24:30having a third nipple and called Drew
24:32tiet which translates to three-tit and
24:36all of this pushed tians down a path of
24:39depression and he eventually turned to
24:41drugs and alcohol he left school in the
24:4410th grade and joined the army similar
24:46to you know our friend France and he
24:49also allegedly had some ties to Satanism
24:52but I couldn't find a lot of information
24:54about his involvement with that the
24:56morning after they raped and attempted
24:57to kill Alison as well allegedly they
25:00just had breakfast like normal and had
25:02the bloody knife that they had used to
25:04Slit her throat and disembowel her just
25:07sitting on the table while they ate
25:09breakfast together I just feel goes to
25:11show like how little remorse they had
25:13and by little remorse I mean no remorse
25:16they had no remorse for their actions on
25:20the 29th of December Franz and tians
25:23appear before the Magistrate's court and
25:25they were ordered to undergo 30 days of
25:27psychiatric evaluation and during that
25:30time they were held at polesmore prison
25:32the two of them both indicated that they
25:34were going to plead guilty but the
25:36police continued their investigation
25:37collected DNA from both men and analyzed
25:40and examined the crime scene just in
25:43case you know they could always change
25:45their minds and decide to plead not
25:46guilty so it's important to have all of
25:49the information at hand while all of
25:50this was going on Alison was still
25:52recovering she wasn't out of the
25:53woodwork yet and still had to undergo
25:55more surgeries she was discharged from
25:57the hospital just before the new year
25:59but she still had to go back to hospital
26:01every single day to have her wounds
26:03treated she still had some horrendous
26:05injuries and a long road to recovery the
26:08worst of her injuries was probably the
26:10abdomen she had to go in every day to
26:12have the wounds scraped until they bled
26:15so that new cells could grow she also
26:17had to undergo plastic surgery and to
26:19this day she still lives with pain and
26:22ongoing medical complications as a
26:24result of her injuries but she is alive
26:27you know against every odd she survived
26:31on the 23rd of March Franz and tians had
26:34their pre-trial hearing they were going
26:36up against eight charges multiple counts
26:38of abduction in decent assault and rape
26:40they were also being charged with one
26:42count of attempted murder I'm one count
26:44of robbery and they pled guilty to all
26:46eight charges France however pled not
26:49guilty to the charge for his first rape
26:52that he committed nobody knows why he
26:54pled not guilty but it's assumed that
26:56it's because there was a lack of
26:58physical evidence because she came
27:00forward a week after the incident
27:01happened so he just assumed due to the
27:04lack of physical evidence he could just
27:05kind of take a chance and plead not
27:07guilty on that one on the 12th of June
27:09in 1995 the trial started and it seemed
27:13to be the only thing the media were
27:15talking about and it was still and still
27:17is one of the most high profile cases in
27:20the history of South Africa in
27:22preparation for the trial Alison went to
27:24see a clinical psychologist who assess
27:26her emotional state and part of what was
27:28documented by the psychologist was that
27:30Alison did not express the typical
27:32feelings of a rape Survivor such as fear
27:34anger shame helplessness and
27:37disintegration she appeared to be quite
27:39composed after the attack and this was
27:41due to her hardened personality style
27:44and obviously it's hard to classify
27:46somebody's response to a rape everybody
27:49is different everybody responds in
27:51different ways and I'm by no means a
27:53psychologist so I don't really fully
27:55grasp this analysis but apparently
27:58there's like three main types of
28:01responses there's an expressed response
28:03a controlled response and a shocked
28:06response so an expressed response would
28:08be somebody expressing you know
28:10hysterically or very agitated about the
28:14attack and then there's the controlled
28:16response which is where somebody is kind
28:18of they don't really show any emotion
28:20about it and then the shocked response
28:22is typically when someone shows
28:24disorientation about what happened to
28:27them so this can present itself in like
28:29confusion or not really remembering a
28:31lot of details and the findings of
28:34Allison's psychological evaluation is
28:37that she was most likely showing a
28:40shocked response and she was in a pro
28:42long State of Shock now at the time that
28:45this case took place in South Africa
28:47they actually had a law there where the
28:49victim would have to put their hand on
28:52the perpetrator or the attacker's
28:53shoulder and get a photo like that to
28:55kind of prove that the victim was
28:58pointing out the perpetrator as the
29:00perpetrator I guess which I mean is kind
29:02of ridiculous because in Alison's case
29:04she's already pointed him out or pointed
29:06them out in two different ways she wrote
29:08their names on the back of photos and
29:10then she also like said it out loud and
29:13I can only imagine how traumatic it
29:15would be for victims to have to go and
29:17touch their attacker and take a photo
29:19with their attacker it just you know
29:22does not seem necessary especially after
29:24going through something so incredibly
29:26traumatic so thankfully in this case
29:28actually they came up with this idea for
29:32a different way for Alison to identify
29:34them a third time I don't even know why
29:36this was necessary she's already
29:37identified them a bunch but the third
29:39time she identified them in instead
29:42instead of taking a photo with her
29:44placing her hand on their shoulder she
29:46was able to identify them through a
29:48one-way glass and this is now actually
29:51the common practice in South Africa so
29:54no more of that having to touch and take
29:56a photo with your perpetrator thankfully
29:58on the very first day of the trial Franz
30:01and tian's attorney a guy named Henry
30:03lerm actually said that he could no
30:05longer represent the men citing ethical
30:09reasons the first witness that was heard
30:11from in the trial was the first woman
30:13that Franz raped alone the 20 year old
30:15student and he would actually be
30:17convicted on four charges two counts of
30:20rape one count of indecent assault and
30:22one count of abduction although this
30:26kind of would all be tallied on to his
30:28sentence later on the second day of the
30:30trial they also had the 21 year old
30:33pregnant woman Testify the one who both
30:35Franz and tians raped and then on the
30:38third day of the trial it was Alison's
30:40time to testify during the trial there
30:42was also so testimony from Tian who if
30:44you remember is the man who pulled over
30:46and got out of his car and actually
30:48helped Alison and he was a vet at the
30:51time but I think now or at the time of
30:53the trial he was working towards
30:55becoming or was a human doctor there was
30:59also a fourth woman who gave testimony
31:01that she was almost a victim of Franz
31:03and tian's the night before Alison was
31:06raped and almost murdered she said that
31:09she noticed the two men watching her
31:11while she was driving up the street
31:12trying to find a park but she just kind
31:14of parked anyway and then once she did
31:16Park Franz came up to her front door and
31:19tried to force his way in but she
31:22thankfully locked the door they couldn't
31:24get in and then they just kind of ended
31:25up walking away tions didn't give
31:27testimony at the trial I'm not sure why
31:29I guess he was just ready to face
31:31whatever was coming he'd already made
31:33his plead pled guilty and I think he
31:35probably just knew there was no getting
31:37out of it no matter what he said France
31:39however did testify at the trial and he
31:42basically admitted to being a Satanist
31:44he said that it was a demon called
31:46Incubus who told him to rape all of the
31:49women and try to murder Alison and it
31:52honestly came off a bit like he was
31:54trying to I don't know take a little bit
31:56of the blame off himself he was trying
31:58to reduce his culpability and it's how
32:00he was like trying to justify his crimes
32:02you know like it was the devil the devil
32:04made me do it it wasn't me while he was
32:06being detained before the trial he
32:08allegedly asked the officers to have
32:11like a pastor come and give him an
32:13exorcism and this was granted so a
32:16passer came gave him an exorcism and
32:19according to one of the officers there
32:20he kept referencing two demons one
32:23called Incubus and one called succubus
32:25and according to this officer he kept
32:28getting the two demons confused so kind
32:32of embarrassing not a very good actor
32:34like at least have your details straight
32:35but it also just kind of proved that all
32:38of this was just kind of a game to him
32:40like he couldn't even get the two Devils
32:41right he was obviously just putting on
32:43this whole Act and the media really
32:45latched on to this whole Satanism angle
32:48and probably really fueled the notoriety
32:51of these two men now something
32:53surprising about his testimony as well
32:55is that he apparently downplayed tian's
32:58involvement quite a lot and said that
33:01tions was like very shocked when France
33:04strangled Alison and he even went as far
33:07as to say that when he got in the car he
33:11actually just thought that Alison was a
33:13friend of France's like he didn't know
33:15that they were going to go and rape this
33:16woman and that all of this was going to
33:18happen during his testimony he also
33:20gained detailed accounts of each rape
33:22that he committed I think by this point
33:25he had already been found guilty of the
33:27first woman's rape despite pleading not
33:29guilty but he hadn't been sentenced for
33:31this like it was all kind of gonna get
33:33grouped together at the end once the
33:35full trial was over he gave this like
33:37really half-assed apology at the end
33:39which was almost like a joke it was like
33:41I don't know how ever be able to forgive
33:43myself again sort of thing by the end of
33:45the trial both men were found guilty on
33:47all eight charges and then Franz was
33:50found guilty on an extra four charges
33:52for the initial rape that he committed
33:55of the 20 year old student by himself
33:57this included two counts of rape one
33:59count of indecent and sold and one count
34:02of abduction and then on the 7th of
34:04August in 1995 which is actually just
34:07two months after South Africa abolished
34:10the death penalty they abolished death
34:12penalty on like the 6th of June 1995
34:14which honestly I guess is kind of lucky
34:17because I don't believe in the death
34:18penalty because I think people who
34:19deserve the death penalty actually
34:21deserve to rot in prison like it's
34:23almost an easy way out to just be
34:25sentenced to death so in my opinion it
34:28was kind of a good thing that it was
34:29abolished two months before they but
34:31anyway on the 7th of August 1995 Franz
34:34de trois was sentenced to three life
34:37sentences without the possibility of
34:39parole and tian's Kruger was sentenced
34:42to one life sentence and 25 years with
34:45no parole so France was given a life
34:48sentence for each of the women he raped
34:50and tianz was given a life sentence only
34:52for Alison and then 25 years for the
34:55pregnant 21 year old that he raped with
34:58France what's crazy as well is that if
35:00they were sentenced two months prior
35:02they likely would have gotten the death
35:04penalty judge Jansen the judge on the
35:06case said that if it was considered
35:08constitutional then he would have
35:10considered it and probably would have
35:11imposed it so after sentencing Franz is
35:15being held at the Groot VL prison and
35:18tions is being held at the Pretoria
35:21Central Prison in the cmax section in
35:24June of 2011 legislation came into
35:26effect in South Africa where anybody who
35:30had been sentenced to a lifelong
35:32sentence in prison and had already
35:34served 13 years and four months by this
35:36point would be eligible for parole which
35:38meant that France and tians would be
35:41eligible for parole which obviously is
35:44something that was heavily heavily
35:46opposed by Alison and the general public
35:49like these guys are a danger to society
35:52they should never be allowed out of
35:54prison they should never be allowed to
35:55walk free amongst other people in my
35:57opinion there was actually a petition
35:59that was created to make sure that they
36:02don't get parole that they stay behind
36:03bars and to my knowledge they haven't
36:06been granted Pearl and they are still
36:07behind bars to this day at this time
36:09Franz was being talked about in the
36:11media for another reason there were
36:13allegations that he was apparently
36:14having an online relationship with an
36:17American woman named Sabrina and Sabrina
36:20ended up coming out after their
36:22relationship ended and said that she was
36:24scared for her life and she also claimed
36:26that France was involved in criminal
36:28activities even while still in prison
36:31which I think is crazy because who the
36:33hell would want to work with this guy
36:35franza's father who was a police officer
36:37actually ended up ending his own life
36:39because he couldn't deal with the shame
36:41of knowing what his son had done now
36:44since all of this has happened and since
36:47recovering from her attack Alison has
36:50made it her mission to share her story
36:52around the world and is a successful
36:55motivational speaker what started out as
36:57something to help combat her depression
36:59turned out to be something she was
37:01deeply passionate about and has resulted
37:03in the release of both a book and a
37:05documentary Alison also won the rotary
37:08and Paul Harris award for courage beyond
37:10the norm in 1995 for becoming the first
37:13South African woman to speak publicly
37:15about the experience of rape that same
37:17year she also received the feminine
37:19Magazine's woman of Courage award and
37:21was announced Port Elizabeth citizen of
37:23the year and honestly I think this is
37:25maybe one of the only good things that
37:27came out of this case because it really
37:29put a spotlight on how many rape cases
37:32gets swept under the rug all around the
37:34world and particularly in South Africa
37:36Alison really took a stand and she held
37:40her attackers responsible for for what
37:42they did to her and it's incredible that
37:45she was able to survive such a brutal
37:48and traumatizing ordeal in 1997 she also
37:52got married to a man named Tierney and
37:54then five years later in 2003 she gave
37:56birth to her first child a son named
37:58Daniel and then in 2006 she gave birth
38:01to her second child a son named Matthew
38:03Tian the man who stopped to help Alison
38:06on the road actually ended up you know
38:09he was a vet at the time he ended up
38:11becoming a doctor like for humans not
38:14for animals and he actually ended up
38:16being the assisting doctor for the birth
38:19of Allison's Second Son Alison talked
38:21about in her book and her documentary
38:23about how as soon as the second man got
38:25in the car she knew it was over for her
38:27she didn't think that she would be going
38:28home that night she also spoke about how
38:31after the rape and throughout most of
38:33the attack and after the attack she
38:35really couldn't feel anything like she
38:36couldn't even feel pain and that's
38:38obviously probably due to the shock that
38:40she was feeling she also talked about
38:42how while she was like lying in the sand
38:44when part severed like after they had
38:46just left her for dead she actually like
38:48left her body and it's almost like she
38:51was so close to death that she
38:53experienced death but she was able to
38:55bring herself back almost she was able
38:57to pull herself together and find that
38:59will to live I mean honestly this is
39:01just one of the most unbelievable and
39:03insane cases I have ever heard of
39:05thinking about her holding her head on
39:08and holding her organs inside her body
39:11while walking to that road it's truly
39:14truly unfathomable and no matter how
39:17many cases I cover I am still astounded
39:19every single time by the disgusting
39:23sub-humans that walk this Earth and what
39:26they're capable of it honestly makes me
39:27sick to my stomach and you know Alison
39:30was one of the lucky ones would you
39:33believe like she was she survived and
39:36when I say lucky obviously she's not
39:37lucky that this happened to her but
39:39she's lucky that she survived such an
39:41deal and she's still here to share her
39:44story and share her strength and her
39:46courage where so many women are not and
39:49while it's not a happy story it's an
39:50incredible Story of Survival and
39:53strength and it really speaks to how
39:56your courage and your mental strength
39:58can help you through the most difficult
40:00situations but that is it that's
40:02everything for me today that's all for
40:04this video I would love to discuss your
40:06thoughts in the comments down below
40:08because although it's a really hard
40:09story to talk about I think it's a
40:11really important conversation to have so
40:13I'd love to hear your thoughts and your
40:15opinions I'll be reading all of the
40:16comments as always but that's everything
40:18that's all for this video I hope you
40:20guys enjoy the rest of your day the rest
40:22of your week and hopefully I will see
40:24you in my next video bye guys

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