A BEITBRIDGE clearing agent who impregnated two schools girls after using money as a bait to lure them before later dumping them, has been sentenced to four years in jail.
Rayson Tsvangirai Rushwaya (26) of Dulibadzimu suburb allegedly used his aunt, a Form Four pupil at Vhembe High School to lure her peers into the sex trap.
He lured his victims to his house and hotel rooms where he allegedly gave them either some intoxicating stuff or drugs before sexually abusing them.
Many girls are reported to have falllen victim but only two reported the abuse to the police.
Beitbridge provincial resident magistrate Ms Gloria Takundwa convicted Rushwaya of two counts of kidnapping in terms of section 93(1) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes it an offence to detain a child below 17 years of age without the consent of his or her parents. Rushwaya will serve an effective two years in jail after two years were suspended for five years on condition that he does not within that period commit a similar crime.
In mitigation, he pleaded with the magistrate not to send him to jail and offered to pay a fine and compensate the parents of the victims.