Terrence Mawawa, Chivhu|A 21 year old herdboy impregnated a Grade 7 pupil after raping her on four different occasions, forcing the minor to drop out of school.
Gabriel Manyere raped the 12 year old girl at the homestead where he was employed as a domestic worker.
He appeared before Chivhu Magistrate Solomon Jenya facing rape charges. The separate incidents happened in Chivizhe Village. Manyere took advantage of the absence of the minor’s grandmother to abuse the girl.
Manyere would sexually pleasure himself on the minor by pursuing her to the bedroom. He threatened to behead the minor each time he slept with her.
The incidents happened sometime in December 2015. The girl reported the matter to her grandmother on February 29 2016, leading to Manyere’s arrest.
The girl said she reported the matter to her grandmother after visiting a local clinic where she was told she had fallen pregnant. “I told Gab that because of what he had done to me,I had missed my monthly periods and my stomach was bulging. He told me that the pregnancy would be terminated in Chivhu,” she said.
She also produced a knife which she said Manyere used to threaten her. Manyere claimed the minor’s grandmother framed the whole story after failing to pay him his monthly wages since 2010.
“The whole story has been fabricated because the girl’s grandmother failed to pay me the agreed sum of $100 per month since 2010. So she wants to silence me,” he said.
Manyere was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He will however serve 12 years in prison after the magistrate suspended three years on the condition that he does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.