A sixteen year old juvenile from Chief Shana’s area in Jambezi has been slapped with a four stroke sentence for raping a 34 year old mentally ill woman while they were in the fields.
The two are cousins.
The boy appeared before Victoria Falls magistrate Dambudzo Malounga charged with rape. The magistrate convicted and sentenced him to receive four strokes administered by a designated officer in the prison services using a rattan cane.
The prosecutor Tawanda Sigauke told the court that sometime in April 2014 the boy was assigned top to and guard the field s and drive away baboons. After some time the woman was sent to relieve the boy so that he go to herd cattle.
Shortly after the woman went her mother followed only to find the boy on top of the woman raping her.
When he noticed that he had been caught red handed he fled from the scene and when he was questioned over the issue the same day he asked for forgiveness promising never to do it again. The woman’s mother then reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of the boy.