A man from Ndiweni Village under Chief Mapanzure in Masvingo told magistrate, Mr Langton Ndokera yesterday that he had sex with his daughter for 4 months after his uncle told him it would end poverty in his family.
The victim told the court that she had agreed to have sex with her father, as she also believed it was the only way their poverty could end. The man was convicted on his own plea of guilty to having sex with a minor and sentenced to five years in jail. Mr Ndokera suspended one year for five years on condition of good behaviour.
The court heard that the man would take advantage of his wife’s absence to have sex with his daughter in his bedroom hut. He would call her to his hut and tell her that if they had sex, they would become rich. The man would threaten his daughter with unspecified action if she dared tell anyone about the abuse. The abuse came to light last week when an anonymous caller alerted the police at Ngomahuru base.
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