In a case of precedents, a sitting magistrate has ordered a minor to pay $30 maintenance.

The Mutare based magistrate, Nyasha Kuture slapped the 17-year-old minor to pay $30 per month maintenance for his child.

The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons.

He had pleaded with the court offering to pay $20 per month as he said he was unemployed after impregnating the mother, Chance Choronga (18).

Choronga sued the teenager saying he was not contributing to the child’s upkeep.

She told the court she was left with no other option than to seek legal recourse.

There was drama when the male teenager had told the court he had been forced to be intimate with Choronga by the complainant’s mother.

But in another contrary witness statement, he later told the court he was in love with Choronga and begged her to come back home. He said, “I love this woman your worship. I am asking her in front of the court that she returns home so that we can be a family again.”