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Patrick Chitumba Senior Court Reporter
A 42-YEAR-OLD sex-starved Bulawayo man allegedly took advantage of his wife’s absence, played his 17-year-old maid a pornographic video while holding her by the waist before raping her four times over three days.
Western Commonage magistrate Tancy Dube was told yesterday at the initial remand of  Innocent Sibanda of House Number 71667 Lobengula West who is being accused of rape.

Sibanda who was not asked to plead was remanded in custody to April 14 for plea recording.
It is the State’s case that on March 15, around 10PM, and at his residence, Sibanda found his maid watching television alone in the sitting room.

He then played a pornographic video and forced the maid to watch it while holding her by the waist, telling her that he wanted them to later perform the sexual acts they were watching on the video.

The maid freed herself and went to Sibanda’s bedroom to collect her blankets since she slept in the sitting room.
Sibanda allegedly followed her, locked the bedroom door, allegedly threw his maid on the bed, undressed and raped her once.

Sibanda then forced the maid to sleep in his bedroom where he slept holding her in his arms and on March 16, around 4AM, he woke her up and raped her again.

On March 17 at around 6:30AM when Sibanda’s children had gone to school, he increased the volume of the radio, went to the sitting room and dragged the maid from the blankets she was sleeping in and force-marched her into his bedroom where he allegedly raped her once.

Sibanda then detained the complainant in his blankets and again around 9AM raped her once more before releasing her.
On March 22, the maid’s cousin noticed that she was behaving strangely.

On being questioned, she revealed to her cousin that her boss was raping her and on March 24, they went and made a report to the police leading to Sibanda’s arrest.

Tatenda Dakwa prosecuted.