South Africa: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after raping an eight-year-old schoolgirl and gouging out one of her eyes

The horrific attack saw the young girl subjected to a brutal sex attack, as well as being bitten and gouged on her way home from school in Gingindlovu, near Durban, South Africa. Police said they believed the youngster dragged the young girl into a sugar field and subjected her to a brutal sex attack before gouging out her left eye and attempting to gouge out the other. It is also thought that the teenager tried to strangle the young girl while her grandmother waited for her to return home. The suspect, who cannot be named, told his grandmother that he carried out the attack after becoming possessed by demons. The horrific incident comes a week after South Africa was left reeling when a video of a teenage girl being brutally gang raped went viral around Johannesburg. South Africa has one of the worst rape records in the world. Official crime statistics showed that there were a total of 56,272 rapes reported in 2011 in South Africa. The huge number amounts to an average of 154 rapes per day - or more than six every hour.