SEBOKENG, South Africa – Prosecutors have finished presenting witnesses against a former dormitory supervisor accused of abusing students at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls.
Wednesday's testimony from the last prosecution witnesses wrapped up the first stage of the trial. Proceedings began in July 2008 with Tiny Virginia Makopo pleading innocent to indecently assaulting and otherwise abusing six teenagers and a fellow supervisor.
On Monday, Makopo's lawyers are expected to start their defense.
Much of the evidence so far has come from students who testified behind closed doors because of their age.
The scandal erupted at Winfrey's $40 million school outside Johannesburg after it opened in 2007 amid great fanfare.