Correspondent|A form 1 pupil at Mkoba 3 High School has been dragged to court for sodomising three siblings and paying buying their silence by giving them some biscuits.

The teenager who cannot be named because of age appeared before Regional Magistrate Phathekile Msipa facing indecent assault charges He was sentenced to receive three strokes after pleading guilty.

It is the State case that sometime in November last year the teenager went to his neighbour’s house to watch cartoons.
Whilst watching the cartoons and playing with his neighbour’s kids the minor told the first complainant aged 9 that he wanted to have anal sex with him and his two little brothers aged 7 and 6 years respectively but the older brother refused.

The accused person seduced the complainant with biscuits and he later agreed to the request. From that day the convicted minor had anal sex with the 9 year-old brother on different occasions while the other two brothers were watching.

The minor also went on to sodomise two other young siblings.

The three siblings narrated what had been happening to them to their mother leading to the arrest of the minor.
In court the accused pleaded guilty to the charge.

Msipa said that aggravated indecent assault was a serious offense which calls for a stiff sentence but because the accused was still in school he will only be canned.