adminLeonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter
A FIVE-year-old girl is admitted to Tsholotsho District Hospital after being ravaged by a 17-year-old boy in a horrific rape ordeal. Agatha Effort Ncube from Dikili Line in Tsholotsho allegedly pounced on his unsuspecting victim on her way home from school and gagged her with a woollen hat before raping her. She sustained serious injuries to her genitals and has been unable to go to school for the past three days.
Ncube appeared before magistrate Abednico Ndebele on Friday charged with rape. He was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to Thursday this week.
Prosecuting, Leane Nkomo said Ncube used an unknown object to rip apart the girl’s panties before raping her once in a bush.
“On June 11 at about 4PM, the complainant was going home from school in the company of her three brothers when the accused emerged from the bush. The four pupils ran towards home but the accused caught up with the complainant while her brothers ran home,” Nkomo said.
“She cried but no one came to her rescue as Ncube removed his woolen hat and pushed it into her mouth to gag her. He then pushed her to the ground and laid her facing upwards upon which he tore her pants into pieces and had sexual intercourse with her once.”
Nkomo said the three brothers informed their grandmother who rushed to the scene but found her granddaughter having already been raped.
She said Ncube fled from the scene when he heard the girl’s grandmother approaching and the girl narrated her ordeal.
The grandmother led her to the police station to file a report of rape leading to Ncube’s arrest.
The girl is doing Grade Zero at a local school and has reportedly not been going to school for the past three days as she is admitted due to injuries she sustained from the alleged sex attack.
The girl was referred to Tsholotsho District Hospital and a medical report produced in court showed that she was seriously injured on her privates.
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