A 49-YEAR-OLD man from Sizinda suburb in Bulawayo allegedly
turned his daughter into a sex slave, raping her five times, at one point
during her menstrual period during a period spanning from February 2014 to November
this year.
The rape occurred in South Africa where the woman (23) was
offered a job by her father at a company he owns in Johannesburg.
The rape victim eventually fled from her father last month
after maternal relatives advised her to come back home.
She is currently staying at a safe shelter with her
three-year-old daughter who witnessed one of the sex attacks.
The woman yesterday opened up in court before Bulawayo
Senior Regional Magistrate Tranos Utahwashe.
She said she bled after every sexual encounter with her
father. Mr Utahwashe remanded the man, who cannot be named to
protect the identity of the victim, to next week for continuation of trial.
Prosecuting, Mr Robin Mukura alleged that on February 11 in
2014, the woman left Bulawayo for South Africa to look for employment while she
was four months pregnant.
“When she arrived, her father, who was resident in South
Africa, took her to his home in Natalspruit. The woman retired to bed and was
surprised to see her father locking the doors from inside and joining her in
bed,” he said.
“He then raped her once and went to work. The woman
notified her cousin the following day but she could not help as she insisted
that the accused was their father.”
Mr Mukura said sometime in January 2016, the woman was
employed by a Pakistan national who fired her after six months on her father’s
orders.
“She eventually went and worked for her father as a
cashier. Sometime in June, the man instructed one of his workers to go to the
bank granting himself an opportunity to be alone with his daughter. He then
went into her room and raped her once,” said Mr Mukura.
He said during the same month, the man instructed his daughter
to go and wash dishes in his room.
“The woman went into her father’s room and found no dirty
dishes. As she was about to leave the room her father entered, undressed and
raped her once. She decided to narrate her ordeal to one of her father’s workers
as the two were now in a relationship,” said Mr Mukura.
“The fourth incident occurred when the man’s wife (victim’s
stepmother) had just travelled to South Africa. He told his daughter that he
wanted to show her around Johannesburg and she accepted.”
They went to a lodge and at that time, her stepmother had
not joined them.
“The man paid R200 and got keys to a room before dragging
his daughter to the room. He locked her inside and took a bath before asking
her to do the same. The woman refused saying she was even on her menstrual
period but her father turned a deaf ear and raped her several times the whole
night.
“In the morning, she was forced to wear a used sanitary pad
and they went away. On November 8, the woman’s daughter was taken to South
Africa and her father secretly took her to his home,” said Mr Mukura.
“She went to her father’s home fearing that he would rape
her daughter. Upon arrival she took her child while questioning why her father
had taken her without her knowledge. At that moment he pushed her onto the bed
and raped her while the child was crying.”
The matter came to light when the woman notified her uncle.
“Her uncle asked her to come back to Zimbabwe and upon
arrival they made a report at ZRP Waterfalls in Harare. The matter was referred
to Bulawayo when the family got wind that the man was in Sizinda,” said Mr
Mukura. Chronicle
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