A 95-YEAR-OLD woman from Nkayi, Matabeleland
North, allegedly “raped” her nine-year-old
grandson and infected him with a sexually
transmitted disease (STD).

The granny met the boy when she was coming
from the business centre last Christmas and
allegedly pushed him to the ground without uttering
a word.

She sat on-top of him and allegedly inserted his
manhood into her privates. The minor kept the
matter a secret until he started discharging pus
with urine.

The elderly woman’s trial will start on May 21,
when a magistrate would have been assigned to
the case. She is charged with aggravated indecent
assault.

According to court papers, the suspect met her
grandson on a footpath around 10 PM while he was
walking alone after separating with the other village
boys.

“After walking for a short distance, the boy got into
a footpath that led to his place of residence with
the other boys going in a different direction. The
boy met his grandmother and the two did not
exchange any words,” the statement read.

“Without saying anything, the elderly woman
grabbed her grandson by the hand and pushed him
to the ground and removed his shorts and underwear.

She sat on top of the child and inserted the minor’s
manhood into her privates.”

After sexually relieving herself, the woman allegedly
stood up and the boy escaped and ran home.
“At the end of January this year, the child fell ill and
was discharging pus in urine. He informed his other
grandmother about the problem and she took him
to Mateme Clinic where he was treated for a
sexually transmitted disease,” the court papers
said.

In September last year, an HIV positive woman
from Mangwe who sexually abused her two juvenile
nephews, resulting in one of them contracting
herpes, a sexually transmitted infection, was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The 34-year-old woman ‘raped’ the two minors
aged 7 and 13 between July and August last year.
In March this year, the woman was among the 40
female inmates released from
Mlondolozi Mental and Female Prison housed at
Khami Complex after benefiting from the
Presidential amnesty.

She had completed six months of her sentence- state media