Online Reporter
Danisa Masuku
A 40-YEAR-OLD man who told his 16-year-old daughter that he was the rightful person to break her virginity before raping her has been caged for 20 years. For the heinous crime the man who cannot be named for ethical reasons has been appearing for trial before Western Commonage regional magistrate Sibongile Msipa-Marondedze facing rape charges.
Initially he had pleaded not guilty saying there was no crime as the victim was his biological daughter and was the rightful person to break her virginity. But at the end of the trial he was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in jail.
In sentencing him the magistrate said the man betrayed the trust that his daughter had in him as he violated her.
She said by saying he wanted to be the first to break her virginity shows that he behaved in an animalistic manner and plunged the minor into trauma.
The magistrate noted that the 24-year-age difference is too much and the man was supposed to play his fatherly figure role which he failed.
Circumstances are that on 27 April shortly after 10pm the unsuspecting child told her father that she was going to sleep at the garage where she usually slept. But her father sprung a shock move instructing her to sleep with him in his bedroom.
He told her that her mother was not around, in that regard there was no reason to sleep alone. They both headed to the bedroom and she spread her blankets on the floor and slept.
While he slept on the bed.
Shockingly during the night he woke up and sneaked into her blankets but his child was awake.
He rubbed his “angry” bedroom gun against her thighs but the minor pinched it forcing him to scream.
He did not give up, after that he threatened to place her on a hot stove and burn her bums.
Hearing that the vulnerable child never screamed, he told her that he must be the one to break her virginity and sexually attacked her.
On the following day the child revealed the ordeal to a relative who accompanied her to a police station and filed a report.
