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AN HIV positive man from Christmas Gift plots in Gweru allegedly raped his six-year-old crippled daughter before threatening her with death if she dared reveal the assault to anyone. The 32-year-old man pleaded not guilty to rape when he appeared before regional magistrate Morgan Nemadire on Tuesday.
He was remanded in custody to next Monday for trial.
For the state, Emmanuel Matosi alleged that sometime in February this year on a date unknown to the prosecutor, the complainant, who was staying with her grandmother, visited her parents.
Matosi told the court that the accused, who was diagnosed HIV positive in 2010, took advantage of his wife’s absence to rape the complainant.
The girl allegedly reported the rape to her mother when she returned but she did not take action.
The matter only came to light when the girl returned to her grandmother’s house where it was discovered that her private parts were swollen and that she was discharging whitish stuff.
It was then that she narrated her ordeal to the grandmother who subsequently reported the rape to the police.
Meanwhile, the girl’s mother baffled the court when she blasted her own mother accusing her of attempting to wreck her marriage.
“My mother is lying and has brainwashed my daughter to cook up these frivolous allegations. She was never raped, the doctors tested my daughter and the results came back negative which is proof that her father did not rape her.
“My mother hates my husband and has tried numerous times to break us apart. This is another one of her futile attempts,” fumed the complainant’s mother when she took the witness stand.
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