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Thupeyo Muleya
Beitbridge Bureau
A 45-year-old Beitbridge man has been jailed for an effective 30 years for raping his two daughters and a neighbour, all three little girls aged between seven and nine.
He denied four charges of rape, but Beitbridge regional magistrate Ms Sithembiso Ndebele convicted him on the strength of the State evidence. She slapped him with a 15 year-jail on each of the first two counts, and another 15 years combined for count three and four. The man was left with an effective 30 years to serve after the court ruled that the 15 years in each of the first two counts will run concurrently.
Prosecutor, Ms Tsitsi Mtukwa, said the man assaulted his daughters aged eight and nine in January last year and the neighbour girl was attacked on Christmas Day last year.
The matter came to light when the man was arrested on a different charge on January 15 this year and his children were taken to a local children’s home where they told social workers what had happened. The case of the third girl was separately reported by her mother when the girl opened up after the man raped her for the second time.
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