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On the night of 3 November, 2016, police arrived at Parktown Boys’ High School in Johannesburg, to arrest assistant waterpolo coach, Collan Rex. He had been caught on CCTV camera footage fondling a 15-year-old learner from the boarding house.

In the year that followed, Rex was charged with 327 offences, including 110 counts of attempted murder, 199 of sexual assault, one of rape, two of sexual grooming and eight of assault. There were seven additional charges of “exposure of pornography to a minor”. He pleaded guilty to 144 charges of sexual assault and stood trial for the remaining 183.

In November 2018 Rex was found guilty of 144 counts of sexual assault and 12 of common assault. This added up to over 150 years, of which he was sentenced to an effective 23 years in prison.

But that wasn’t the end. It wasn’t even the beginning.