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Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter
TEN boys filed into a courtroom yesterday to face a teacher accused of sickening sex attacks on them.
Nkosiyazi Sibanda’s trial should have begun yesterday at the Bulawayo magistrates’ courts, but an administrative error saw him being driven to Inyathi instead.
Magistrate Colet Ncube was forced to postpone the trial to February 17.
Sibanda, 21, was a teacher at Longwe Primary School in Kenilworth, Bubi District, until October last year when a 13-year-old boy told police he had been abused over a period of three months.
A police investigation found nine other boys who also claimed they had been sexually abused by Sibanda, of Sikwata Village in Lower Gweru.
The ten boys, some in uniform, arrived by kombi at the courts. Their parents and other teachers filled the public gallery – but Sibanda would not pitch up to face his accusers.
The Grade 7 pupil who sparked the investigation told police that sometime in August last year, Sibanda called him to his bedroom before closing and locking the door.
He then grabbed the boy and molested him once, say prosecutors.
On October 1, Sibanda sent the same boy to his house after telling him to go and start a fire, it is alleged.
But prosecutors say he quickly followed and performed a sickening sex attack on the boy which left him in great pain.
The boy told his mother leading to Sibanda’s arrest which would reveal a string of alleged sex attacks on boys between September 2012 and October 2013.
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