Some Carte Blanche segments are hard to watch, and this is one of those.

Aired this past Sunday, their look into what’s been happening at a well-known dance academy based in Gauteng is pretty jarring.

The police are still conducting their investigation, so the charges remain unproven, but multiple witnesses point to serious crimes having been committed.

This from the write-up:

For a number of girls attending a well-known dance academy in Gauteng, dreams of making it big on the stage have turned to dust as they say they were exposed to a sex grooming ring in the school.

Speaking out for the first time, three of the learners and their mothers reveal how the allegations of grooming and sexual assault have impacted their lives while their cases remain in the hands of police.

Then the teenage boys at the centre of the investigation respond but what’s really behind allegations? Carte Blanche investigates.

The extent of South Africa’s ‘sex-pest teacher’ problem was recently laid bare, and that’s just part of what seems to be going so wrong at the school.

Here’s the segment:

[source:carteblanche]