According to him, this ritual would have helped him make
huge sums of money at his gold mining claim in Zhombe.
And since January, without missing a single day, Chitima
would unashamedly find time and appropriate opportunity to bed his daughter,
either before she went to school, at night, or whatever time he would find as
long the mother and other family members were out of sight.
But luck ran out for Chitima early this month when, after
failing to find appropriate time for the routine rape on his teen daughter, he
decided to rape her as she prepared to leave for school.
On the fateful day, September 6 this year, the mother
followed her rapist husband to the girl’s bedroom and caught him in the act.
Fictitious as it might sound, these were the perplexing
revelations that a stunned Gokwe magistrate was told yesterday during the
appearance of Chitima as he faced several rape counts. On his own plea of
guilty, Chitima was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the crime by regional
magistrate Mr Lungile Ncube.
Five years were suspended on condition of good behaviour,
meaning he will serve an effective 25 years behind bars.
Representing the State, prosecutor Mr Kennedy Madakutsikwa
told the court that between January and September 2021, Chitima had raped his
daughter on several occasions for ritual purposes, without the knowledge of the
mother and other family members.
The court heard that for him to fulfil the ritual, Chitima
was supposed to continue raping his daughter daily for a year.
He would threaten his daughter with unspecified action if
she revealed the abuse to anyone, the court heard.
However, on September 6, the daughter’s mother got
suspicious after the father offered to go to the girl’s bedroom to iron her
school uniform that was supposed to be worn that day.
She then followed after some time and opened their girl’s
bedroom door only to find the father raping her.
The stunned mother then escorted both the daughter and the
father to Zhombe police base, where the daughter then narrated that she had
been subjected to rape by the father since January.
Police and the community in Zhombe have welcomed the
sentence handed down on Chitima, saying society didn’t need such characters.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel
Mahoko said they will continue to weed out criminals in society.
“We thank the officers who tracked down the case to its
finality. We would like to warn such criminals like fathers who rape their own
daughters for ritual purposes that the long arm of the law will catch up with
them,” he said.
Chief Ntabeni said the entire community was in shock and
welcomed the sentence.
“We are still in shock but we thank the law enforcement
agents for a job well done. Such people are a danger to society. How can one
try to make money through raping his own child? It is total madness,” he said.
Herald
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