A 39-YEAR-OLD teacher in Chipinge has been jailed for three
years for being intimate with a Grade 6 pupil.
The primary school teacher, whose name has been withheld to
protect the identity of his victim, was convicted on his own plea of guilty
before Chipinge magistrate Elizabeth Hanzi.
He was sentenced to five years in prison of which two years
were conditionally suspended for five years.
Asked by the magistrate why he abused the girl, he said she
consented as they were in love.
“I was in love with the girl. We had agreed to have sexual
intercourse because we were in a relationship,” he said.
Prosecutor Shamiso Ncube told the court that on an unknown
date in June, the 13-year-old girl, together with her two friends aged 10 and
12, went to the teacher’s house to borrow plastic tins to water the school
garden.
However, he gave them his laptop to watch movies in his
cottage. From that day the girls regularly visited the teacher at
his house.
On another date, unknown to the prosecutor, the teacher
proposed love to the girl and she agreed and he had sexual intercourse with
her. The minor divulged the incident to a friend on the way
home.
The matter was only reported to the police a month later by
the girl’s sister after hearing of the abuse through the grapevine, leading to
the teacher’s arrest. Newsday
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