Social services paid the elderly woman a visit after learning of the horrifying mistreatment she had suffered.
She admitted that her son “does it almost every day” and that he had raped her after getting into bed with her.
However, the old mother passed away seven months after the inquiry into the unsettling case began, and her testimony was inadmissible as evidence in her son’s trial.
However, a forensic physician, a social worker, and the victim’s caregivers all provided testimony.
Forensic physicians stated that Rafael’s “intellectual capacity was sufficient to discern what was right and wrong,” despite the defense’s claim that he has an intellectual handicap.
