Rapist granddad jailed 16 years

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Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter
A 63-year-old HIV positive man from Emakhandeni suburb in Bulawayo who raped his 16-year-old granddaughter while she recorded the sickening attack was yesterday slapped with a 16-year effective jail sentence.

The man, who pleaded not guilty to the charge is today beginning his prison sentence despite telling the court that he had consensual sex with his granddaughter.

He was facing one count each of rape and indecent assault.

In mitigation, the grandfather told the court that he committed the offence after he could no longer resist advances by his granddaughter who kept on pestering him to be intimate with her.

“Your worship, I’m pleading for leniency as I’m a 63-year-old man father of 11 children, my health is deteriorating and I’ve a hearing problem and the diet at Khami Prison makes me sick,” he pleaded.

Bulawayo regional magistrate Mark Dzira, in passing sentence, said cases of abuse of the girl child by relatives were on the rise, therefore a deterrent sentence would serve as a warning to other men of like mind.

“During the trial, you didn’t show remorse, you referred to your granddaughter as a prostitute as if prostitutes don’t have a right to say no to sex.

“You don’t deserve mercy from this court,” said Dzira.

He sentenced the man to one year imprisonment for indecent assault and 18 years for rape.

Three years were suspended on condition that he does not within five years commit a similar offence.

Tinashe Dzipe, for the prosecution, said shortly after 8AM on September 28 this year, at a house in Emakhandeni suburb, the grandfather ordered his granddaughter to clean the fowl run.

“When she proceeded to her bedroom, he followed her. He undressed and asked her to have sex with him. She refused and he was furious and left the room,” said Dzipe.

“On September 29, after taking a bath, he got into the bedroom and found his granddaughter half naked. He undressed himself, grabbed her by the hand and pushed her on the bed.

“He then forced her to have sex with him without protection,” said Dzipe.

Unbeknown to the rapist, the girl’s phone which was lying on the bed had its video recording application turned on.

In the video, the girl begs him not to rape her, but wait for her grandmother for sex.

“Please, wait for my granny she’s coming,” the girl is heard begging in Shona. “Please, leave me alone.”

The grandad, speaking in Ndebele and apparently pointing to his erect penis, tells the terrified teenager in reply: “I can’t wait. Look at me!”

He raped her afterwards.

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