By A Correspondent|A Matobo man is in trouble after he allegedly raped his niece (13) several times before bribing her with jiggies not to report the matter.

It is the state’s case that the man who can not be named to protect the identity of the minor used to stay together with his niece when the rape incidents occurred.

The man (36) was not asked to plead when he appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Mafios Moyo.

He was remanded in custody to March 20 for judgement.

The court was told that sometime in January 2019, the girl was in company of the man when they went to look after cattle in the bush.

It is alleged that whilst they were in the bush he told the girl to lie down on the ground and she refused.

The man lifted the girl up with his one hand with whilst he used the other hand to fondle the girl’s body before forcing her to lay down.

He went on to remove the girl’s underwear whilst she tried to escape and told her to keep quiet or else he would kill her.

The state alleges that he raped the girl once without her consent. After finishing, he ordered her to wear her clothes and return back home.

He told the girl not to tell anyone or else he was going to kill her.

On the third day the girl was at home in her bedroom in the evening, she was about to sleep when he entered in her room and ordered her to keep quiet.

He removed his clothes, and raped her again without protection and gave her jiggies.

The man went back to his bedroom and ordered the girl not to tell anyone. He skipped a day and came back again during the same time and had sexual intercourse with her during the month of May 2019.

The court was told that in May 2019 the girl went to Bulawayo to visit her father and came back home sometime in the month of September 2019.

It is alleged that he visited the girl in her bedroom on the third day of her arrival during the evening and had sexual intercourse with her and gave her jiggies.

He skipped a day and came back again during the same time and raped her again. On October 5, 2019 he came into the girl’s room in the evening as usual with his blanket and slept beside the girl.

He raped the girl again during the night and slept beside her. It is alleged that at around 11pm, the girl’s uncle knocked in her room looking for him and she told him that he was sleeping in her bedroom. The uncle ordered the girl not to wake him up, he woke up and went outside the girl’s bedroom leaving his blanket behind.

At around 12am midnight the uncle’s wife woke the girl up and asked her what he was doing in her bedroom and she narrated to her the whole story.

On October 6 2019, the matter was reported to the police leading to his arrest.