BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/01/2010

Barbie unaffected by Dirk's case

By CHARL DU PLESSIS

Cezanne Visser, known as Advocate Barbie - who took the rap for sex crimes involving children - is unaffected by the appearance of her co-accused and former lover, Dirk Prinsloo, in a Belarussian court to face five charges, including torture.

Visser's advocate, Johan Engelbrecht, told The Times that the case against Prinsloo in the former Soviet republic - where he is charged with stealing a girlfriend's diamond necklace, torturing another woman, threatening to murder one of his many lovers, attempted bank robbery and hooliganism - has no bearing on his client's case.

"He is going his way and she's going hers," Engelbrecht said.

"We are hoping for the best. I am hopeful that the court will hand her an appropriate sentence."

In October, Judge Chris Eksteen, of the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, convicted Visser on 11 sex-related charges, including child molestation and manufacturing child pornography with Prinsloo.

But Prinsloo skipped bail while on a business trip to Russia and left Visser to take the fall.

Last year, in a bizarre series of e-mails to the media, including The Times, Prinsloo told how he had evaded justice to protect his child and his child's mother.

Shortly after, he was arrested in Belarus for allegedly trying to rob a bank with a toy gun.

Visser, who blamed Prinsloo for everything, saying she was merely following his orders, wept in the dock as Eksteen found her guilty.

Six women arrived at the Baranovichi High Court, in Belarus, for the start of Prinsloo's trial.

He is alleged to have humiliated one of his former girlfriends, Anastasia Gomza, whom he routinely assaulted in her flat in the capital, Minsk.

Visser will be sentenced on February 8.

Source:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/article258348.ece


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