A married visually-impaired man from Mucheke recently
appeared before Masvingo magistrate Dambudzo Malunga for sodomising a
16-year-old boy and was given a 13-year jail sentence for the crime.
Edson Chivi (41) told the court that he sodomised the boy
by mistake thinking that the boy was his wife.
“I am guilty. I did it by mistake thinking that the boy was
my wife. I fondled the legs and thought it was my wife who had changed side.
The boy did not resist or complain and he did not even cry,” Chivi pleaded.
Two of his 13-year jail sentence were suspended on
condition he did not commit a similar
offence over the next five years.
It was the State’s case that on February 10 at around
22:00hrs, the accused person was sleeping with his wife Elisina Ndou, who is
also blind, in their shack at Mucheke bus terminus.
The accused invited the complainant to come and sleep in
the same shack and they both agreed.
While the complaint slept, Chivi sodomised him without his
consent and this happened in the full view of another juvenile who tried in
vain to wake him up.
The court heard that the complainant only woke up after the
accused had finished.
Liberty Hove
prosecuted. Tell Zimbabwe
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