Concern about distribution of home made sex videos in Musina

Forget about the notorious Krugersdorp sex video; a lot of them can be found in Musina.

There seems to be a competition about who can make a better sex video in the small town. Since the beginning of this year, more than six sex videos have been circulating in Musina. All of the sex videos have been made by the participants themselves. Most of the videos involve grown-up, married men and underage girls.

An unconfirmed report states that one of the men who had "acted" in one of the videos was arrested and released on bail when a girl's parents opened a case of statutory rape after they had seen the video.

W/O Peter Mudau, spokesperson of the police station, said he could not confirm or deny any arrest "as I was on sick leave." He confirmed, however, that the management of Musina police station was aware of and concerned about the high number of sex videos circulating in the area. "As management of the station, we recently had a meeting where we decided that we should warn the community that the recording of sex videos is illegal."

"We also decided in that meeting that the community should be made aware that anyone who is found in possession of a sex video can be arrested and prosecuted," said Mudau. He added that they were aware of the fact that many of these sex videos also involved minors.

"Any such videos that we find in the public domain will be used tol arrest the culprits and prosecute them," said Mudau. He could not confirm whether it was true that there were sex videos involving a Home Affairs woman, attached to the Beit Bridge border post, having a five-some with four SANDF members.

Unconfirmed reports say the woman has since taken leave as a result of stress after being mocked by colleagues who had seen the video.

Many believe that the sex videos were emulating the Krugersdorp sex video that involves a warder and a police officer.

Mudau said: "We believe technology is playing a big role in this thing. Children now have access to technological things like What's up and Internet though cell-phones and computers. These things gives them access to unauthorized things like pornographic material.  We believe some of the children are getting involved in sex video after seeing them in their cellphones and computers.