TWO teenagers believed they could get drunk without
spending their money but feeding off grown men until tragedy struck.
The two (names withheld) from Pumula suburb one day found
their target at a popular nightspot in Bulawayo but little did they know they
were in for the highest jump.
Their “target” bought them drinks for the whole night until
midnight when he suggested they go get some food from one of his friends with a
restaurant in the plush suburb of Burnside. It was around 3am but that didn’t
matter for the two because they were getting what they wanted.
One of them told B-Metro that they sized their “target” up
and seeing he was driving a vehicle that seemed to be a Government Sport
Utility Vehicle (SUV), he must have been a senior civil servant and they
trusted his pockets as surety.
“When he suggested food, we did not think twice because we
had been drinking for the whole night and not eating anything. When we got out
of the bar we saw the car he was driving and we thought he was harmless,” said
one of the women.
He drove to their destination, a big house with a wall up
high and a big gate. That’s when they asked themselves what was going on. After
all the house didn’t look like a restaurant.
“When we got to Burnside we took many turns and l got
confused but l was the only one awake because my friend had dosed off. We got
to a big house with a large wall and gate and at that moment my mind told me
something bad was about to happen because l have never come across a food joint
hidden between houses,” she added.
They got inside the house but instead of food their host
became rude. “We went inside the house and everything changed as he
became rude towards us,” she said.
The worst was about to happen. “He went to one of the rooms and came back carrying a rope.
He tied us and raped us without a condom. After he was done he dumped us on the
roadside and we were found by people who took us to the hospital after calling
the police,” she added.
At the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) they were given PEP
(post-exposure prophylaxis) a drug that is taken when one has been potentially
exposed to HIV to prevent becoming infected.
The two girls chose not to follow the issue up with the
police because they are scared of what their parents would do to them (they are
under-18 years of age).
A woman who claims to have driven them to hospital, a Mrs
Mahlangu, said she was the one who made the police report.
“I saw what looked like rubbish bags and when l got closer
l saw that it was two girls tied up. I uncovered their mouths to find out what
had happened and they told me half the story and l decided to call the police,”
she said. B Metro
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