Terrence Mawawa | Masvingo |A man from Triangle, Chiredzi stunned the local community when he raped his stepdaughter after watching pornography with her.
Masimba Zhowanota(44) of Mpapa, Triangle, discovered that his 16-year-old daughter had pornographic material in her phone and watched the obscene video clips with her. Zhowanota appeared before Chiredzi Resident Magistrate Constance Mutandwa last Tuesday, facing rape charges. Sometime in January 2015 Zhowanota found pornographic videos in the girl’s phone and took advantage of her state of panic to watch the videos with her.
Zhowanota then forcibly had sex with her. From February 2015, the two had sex on several occasions. When the girl’s mother returned from the rural areas she interrogated her daughter after a tip-off from neigbhours. The minor revealed she was pregnant. The minor’s mother then reported the matter to Triangle Police Station leading to Zhowanota’s arrest. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison and six months were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour. He will serve 18 months in prison.
Zhowanota’s neighbours also related how the minor was subjected to crude sexual acts. “The girl had a torrid time because Zhowanota performed all sorts of crude sexual acts with her. The girl was deeply reluctant to disclose the matter because of the long period she was subjected to sexual abuse,”said one of Zhowanota’s neighbours.