A 37-year-old man from Cowdray Park, Bulawayo appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Mrs Sibongile Marondedze facing rape charges. He was remanded in custody to April 28 for trial. The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, his 13-year-old step daughter.
The states alleges that between January and March this year, the man took advantage of his wife’s absence and raped his step daughter on three different occasions. On realising that she was pregnant, the victim allegedly informed her step father who promised to buy her abortion pills. The victim’s mother became suspicious after her daughter told her that she had missed her monthly period. She later revealed that she had been raped by her step father.
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