A 34-YEAR-OLD Zim man will spend the next four years in prison for
having sex with his 14-year-old daughter after his uncle told him it would end
poverty in his family.
The
incestuous relationship spanned four months.
The
man from Ndiweni Village under Chief Mapanzure brought business at Masvingo
criminal court to a halt when he suddenly broke into tears while defending
himself before provincial magistrate, Mr Langton Ndokera yesterday.
The
drama had started earlier when the victim who cannot be named because she is a
minor, told the court that she had consented to sex with the father, as she
also believed that it was the only way their poverty could end.
The
man was convicted on his own plea of guilty to having sex with a minor and
sentenced to five years in jail.
Mr
Ndokera suspended one year for five years on condition of good behaviour.
The
accused wept uncontrollably saying he started having sex with his daughter
when an unnamed uncle told him that it would end the family’s poverty.
“My
uncle advised me that if I sleep with my daughter the poverty that is
bedevilling our family will end,” said the man as he burst in tears.
Prosecutor
Mr Fidelicy Nyamukondiwa told the court that the accused would take advantage
of his wife’s absence to be intimate with his daughter in his bedroom hut.
He
said the man would call the juvenile to his bedroom hut and tell her that if
they had sex, they would become rich.
“Between
February and May this year accused person was left in custody of his child when
his wife was going to nearby villages for some odd jobs. He called the girl to
his bedroom where he lied that having sex would end their poverty.
“He
said that was the only way he could be able to take care of her disabled
sibling,” said Mr Nyamukondiwa.
He
said the man would threaten his victim with unspecified actions; if she dared
tell anyone about the abuse and the accused went on to have sex with her on
several occasions.
However,
the abuse came to light last week when an anonymus caller alerted the police at
Ngomahuru base.
Police
conducted investigations and arrested the accused.
(Chronicle)
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