adminAbel Zhakata Senior Reporter
ATTEMPTS by a Buhera rapist to hide behind his small manhood saying it was useless to deny ever raping two juveniles on five different occasions hit a brick wall after he was slapped with a 75-year jail term by Rusape regional magistrate.
During the course of the trial, Solomon Mugwenhi (36) told Mr Livingstone Chipadza that his manhood was a useless toy that could not do any harm to his nieces aged nine and eight respectively.
He said by inserting the manhood into the girls’ private parts he was just trying to find out if it was now functional. However, the court did not buy his case and Mr Chipadza ruled that evidence produced in court showed that his “small” manhood had sexually abused the girls.
This was after the State led by Rusape area prosecutor Mr Tirivanhu Mutyasira provided overwhelming evidence to warrant a conviction.
On each of the five counts, Mugwenhi got 15 years to make a total of 75 years. He, however, will spend an effective 70 years behind bars after five years of the sentence were set aside on condition of good behaviour.
Mr Mutyasira, who urged the court to pass a deterrent sentence, told the court that Mugwenhi had raped the girls since 2011.
“Five of the counts were perpetrated on the nine-year-old girl. One day he called the girl into his bedroom and told her that since she was her niece she was as good as his wife. The girl did not understand what he meant. In an instant, he grabbed the girl and tossed her on to the bed and raped her. After committing the offence he produced a knife and threatened to kill her if she ever divulged the ordeal to anyone,” said Mr Mutyasira.
He repeated the same modus operandi on the girl on four different occasions stretching up to September last year. He then turned to the younger girl whom he also raped. However, luck ran out when he was raping the minor as his brother caught him red-handed in the act. The State produced medical examinations which showed that there was penetration and the girls were violated.
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