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A 38-year-old HIV-positive Harare woman, who sexually abused two teenage boys aged 14 and 15, will spend the next 20 years in jail.
Faith Gona received payments in the form of cash ranging from $3 to $5 and clothes from the two teenagers in exchange for sexual favours.
One of the boys would steal clothes from his grandmother to pay Gona.
Regional magistrate Mr Hosea Mujaya convicted the woman after a fully contested trial.
Of the two counts of aggravated indecent assault, Mr Mujaya sentenced Gona to an effective 20 years in prison.
The court heard that Gona would have protected sex with the teenagers on several occasions.
She had denied the allegations arguing that she could not have sexually abused the two boys saying she was a married woman and that her husband was always available.
Gona called her purported husband to give evidence as her defence witness, but the two gave contradicting statements of the day they got married, where they got married and the type of marriage union which existed between them.
She claimed that she used to buy clothes from the boys, which she either wore or sent to her rural home.
However, Gona was convicted due to overwhelming evidence against her.
In his evidence-in-chief, one of the boys told the court that Gona had a tattoo on her thigh and that he had seen it while she sexually abused him.
She, however, did not dispute the issue of the tattoo saying the boys had seen the tattoo when they visited and saw her wearing a pair of shorts.
The court heard that Gona brought the two into her house and had sexual intercourse with them one after the other.
The two victims were introduced to the woman by a 17-year-old boy who was a “regular client”.
The matter came to light when one of the boy’s grandmother quizzed him over the disappearance of her clothes.
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