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Ivan Zhakata
Herald Correspondent
A 49-year-old woman from Binga has appeared before the Hwange Magistrates’ Court for facilitating her young sister’s rape.
The woman is facing rape charges or alternatively, procuring as defined in Section 83 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act, Chapter 9:23.
Allegations are that sometime in August 2018, the woman took the complainant who is her sister to stay with her in Gwanda on the pretext that she would send her to a school there.
In October 2013, the woman went to Binga leaving the complainant and her husband sharing a room.
The court heard that the complainant never went to school. The complainant allegedly questioned her brother-in-law why she was not going to school and he told her that her sister had cheated on him so she had agreed to offer her to him as compensation for not bearing children for him.
The bother-in-law, the court heard, stayed with the complainant in Gwanda from October 2018 to November 2018 and had sexual intercourse with her several times without her consent.
When the sister returned to Gwanda, her husband continued to have sexual intercourse with the complainant in her presence.
The woman allegedly gave the complainant a red concoction to drink after several encounters.
The court heard that the complainant tried to run away in August 2021 but she was caught and brought back.
The brother-in-law reportedly threatened to kill her but she eventually managed to escape during the same month and informed her parents of her ordeal but nothing was done about it.
The complainant made a police report on June 17, 2024 in Bulawayo. The woman was remanded in custody to October 4, 2024.
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