Terrence Mawawa Chivhu A local man who sexually assaulted his lover’s three daughters for 12 years has been apprehended and charged after her death.
In a story full of intrigue and drama the daughters mustered the courage to report the matter to the police after their mother’s death.
It is for instance understood the woman witnessed some of the sexual acts but she ordered the girls not to disclose the matter.
Emmanuel Masikati(44) of Hugos Fontein, Chivhu appeared before Magistrate Dennis Mungoshi last week, facing rape charges. Mungoshi began to have sex with one of the daughters when she was doing grade seven. He raped her while she was herding cattle and continued to pleasure himself on the girl until her mother died this year.
The first complainant is now 26. Masikati used a knife to threaten the girl whenever  she refused to have sex with him. The complainant did not tell anyone until her mother died. She told her aunt how her stepfather abused her for 12 years. Masikati also had sex with the complainant’s two twin sisters after threatening them with the same knife.
It is reported Masikati’s lover-the complainants’ mother ordered her children to remain mum about the rape incidents.The three only managed to report the cases after their mother’s death. Masikati was arrested after her three stepdaughters reported the incidents at Chivhu Police Station.