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Claret Ndlovu

Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent
POLICE in Plumtree have arrested a maid who received payments from different men for facilitating the rape of her South African-based employer’s 10-year-old daughter as a way of supplementing her salary.

Claret Ndlovu, 30, would allegedly invite different men to have sex with the girl at her employer’s house in Plumtree’s ZBS area between March 1 and 15 this year.

Ndlovu, who was hired in January, has been living with her employer’s three minor children while their mother is in South Africa where she is employed.

She told the police that her employer was underpaying her and sending inadequate groceries for her and the children, hence she resorted to pimping out the young girl to supplement her income.

Ndlovu appeared before Plumtree magistrate, Livard Philemon Philemon yesterday to answer to charges of rape.

She was not asked to plead and remanded in custody to April 7.

Ndlovu allegedly invited a man only identified as Abednico, who is still at large, to her employer’s house and assisted him to rape the minor on several occasions. Police are now investigating the other cases of rape allegedly facilitated by Ndlovu.

Prosecuting, Jane Phiri said Ndlovu invited Abednico during the period extending from March 1 to March 15.

“Ndlovu invited her accomplice to her employer’s homestead where she is looking after three juvenile children. She unlawfully assisted him to forcibly have sexual intercourse with the juvenile on several occasions without the knowledge of the other two children,” he said.

Phiri said the offence came to light after the juvenile was referred to hospital by her teacher after complaining of abdominal pains, leading to Ndlovu’s arrest.

Recently, a Bulawayo maid was sentenced to 22 years in jail after she placed a 10 month old baby in a drawer, leading to her death through suffocation.