The girl concealed her pregnancy for eight months and it
only came to light recently after she suddenly went into labour and was rushed
to hospital.
“It was during labour that she told her mother and the
midwives who attended to her that she was raped by her father eight months
ago,” said a nurse at Shurugwi District Hospital.
The nurse said the girl was still at the hospital’s
maternity ward, adding that the health institution was liaising with a local
orphanage home so that the girl could be taken there for her and the baby’s
care.
The 34-year-old father has since been arrested and appeared
before Shurugwi magistrate, Mrs Percy Mukumba, facing charges of raping his
daughter. He was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to August 11.
The court requested for DNA tests of the father and the
child. It was heard that sometime in October 2020, the father took his daughter
to a bush near Lundi Bridge along the Shurugwi-Zvishavane Road where he raped
her on the pretext that he was fulfilling some rituals.
Mrs Tafadzwa Guzete prosecuted. Herald
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