JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A South African man convicted of 90 counts of rape, including of girls as young as nine, was sentenced Friday to 42 life sentences.

Nkosinathi Phakathi, 40, targeted schoolgirls and forced children to watch him carry out rapes in or around Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, between 2012 and 2021.

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