A 20-year-old man raped his seven-year-old niece and then targeted his neighbour’s daughters aged four and six, a court heard yesterday.
Limwell Nyathi, of Madlambuzi in Bulilima District, Zimbabwe, was not asked to plead during a brief appearance before Plumtree magistrate Livard Philimoni charged with multiple counts of rape.
According to the Chronicle, the court heard how on May 15 last year, Nyathi’s niece arrived home from school and found her uncle alone. Nyathi summoned her to his bedroom hut and raped her, threatening to kill her if she told anyone.
A week later, the court heard, Nyathi found his neighbour’s two daughters aged four and six in the company of their sister. The sister then left the juveniles in Nyathi’s care as she proceeded to fetch firewood.
Prosecutors say while Nyathi remained with the unsuspecting children, he raped them one after the other and threatened to kill them if they reported him.
Medica Tshuma said the children did not report the alleged sex attacks, which only came to light when their mothers noticed bruises on their privates while bathing them.
Police were called in and arrested Nyathi. Philimoni remanded him in custody to February 24. Meanwhile, a 35-year-old man from the same area kidnapped his four-year-old cousin on January 29 and dragged her into the bush where he raped her, prosecutors said.
Possent Moyo tried to cover up the crime by bathing her in the river, and then took her to her mother claiming her had found her wandering alone in the bush.
But the alleged victim told her mother about the abuse, leading to Moyo’s arrest. Plumtree magistrate, Gideon Ruvetsa, remanded Moyo in custody to February 18.
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