A 36-YEAR-OLD Mazowe High School teacher was last week
slapped with a 15-year jail term by a Bindura magistrate for raping an
18-year-old student on three different occasions.
Terence Makombe was jailed after trial by magistrate Sandra
Mupindu, who suspended three years conditionally.
Prosecutor Gossy Mudambu told the court that in December
last year at Mazowe High School cottage, Makombe took advantage of the victim,
who was staying alone at her parents’ house. He invited her to his office and
proposed love to her, which she spurned. The convict then began playing a
pornographic video on his laptop to entice the student.
Makombe demanded to have sexual intercourse with the complainant,
who refused, but he went on to lock the door and raped her. He threatened to
assault the complainant if she divulged the matter to anyone.
During the same month, the teacher again approached the
complainant at her parents’ house and raped her again without protection.
On January 8, the convict raped the student again in her
room. The matter came to light when she went to Marondera and told her parents
about her ordeal. A report was made at Dombotombo Police Station leading to the
convict’s arrest.
In an unrelated case, a 27-year-old woman was last week
ordered to do community service by a Guruve magistrate for throwing her
newly-born baby into a blair toilet.
Auxillia Dzukamanja (27) pleaded guilty to the charge
before magistrate Artwell Sanyatwi, who sentenced her to six months in prison,
two conditionally suspended, while the remaining four were commuted to 140
hours of community service at Guruve Court.
Prosecuting, Carson Kundiona told the court that on July
12, the police, working on a tip-off, discovered a dumped baby in a blair
toilet and they retrieved it with the help of Dzukamanja. Newsday
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