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By Staff Reporter| The case of the man who did an act of cruelty that eventually allegedly forced his girlfriend, named Tapiwa to commit suicide, saw contributors yesterday saying the victim could have faked her own death.
People commenting on ZimEye last night claimed the victim faked her death in order to force the man to delete the videos he had uploaded.
” She is alive I was with her just now,” a Harare man wrote.
But upon being telephoned, the man, told ZimEye he does not at all know her and the information came through the victim’s cousin. When questioned on the name of this cousin, the source took another twist this time saying ” I don’t know her name we only meet at the Ximex mall.”
The background of the story is that the culprit man only identified as “Terrence” leaked his girlfriend’s sex tape in what saw the woman pleading for forgiveness. But the man would did not heed and proceeded to leak the tape.
The case was yesterday handed to the police, ZimEye is reliably told. ZimEye.com has obtained confirmation from the Norton MP, Temba Mliswa that he has alerted the police.
“I have just been made aware of it… and what I have done I have immediately tasked the police to give me a proper brief on it…,” Hon. Mliswa told ZimEye.com.
A legal expert from the UK based TanLaw Solicitors, Mr Andrew Nyamayaro gave the below comment: Revenge Porn has been criminalised in the United Kingdom and in most jurisdictions in the world. In Zimbabwe, the Cybercrime and Cybersecurity bill was tabled in Parliament in 2017. Paragragh 19 of the Bill states that:
“ 19 Transmission of intimate images without consent
(1) Any person who unlawfully and intentionally by means of a computer or information system makes available, broadcasts or distributes a data message containing any intimate image of an identifiable person without the consent of the person concerned causing the humiliation or embarrassment of such person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2) For the purposes of subsubsection (1) “intimate image” means a visual depiction of a person made by any means in which the person is nude, the genitalia or naked female breasts are exposed or sexual acts are displayed.”
Revenge Porn applies both online and offline and to images which are shared electronically or in a more traditional way so includes the uploading of images on the internet, sharing by text and e-mail, or showing someone a physical or electronic image.
Meanwhile, ZimEye produces audio recordings which expose the man for what he allegedly did.