The Namibian Correctional Service has extended its community service orders programme to the Luderitz Magistrate's Court and Aus Periodical Court.

The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security, Lucia Witbooi, officially launched the programme's expansion at Luderitz.

Acting Divisional Magistrate Stanley Tembwe from the Keetmanshoop Regional Court has sentenced Aroab Sebastiaan Abrahams to 10 years imprisonment for raping a minor girl.

Abrahams is said to have lured a six-year-old girl to the veld, where he raped her.