Tendai Zengeni (57) was not asked to plead to rape charges
when he recently appeared before Mutare magistrate, Ms Prisca Manhibi.
Zengeni was remanded in custody.
Prosecutor Ms Tafadzwa Chiwanza said the complainant was on
her way home from Masvingo when she met Zengeni at Muromo Business Centre.
Zengeni offered to help carry her bags since she had a baby
strapped on her back as well as a four-year-old child.
On their way to her home, Zengeni asked the woman if he
could be intimate with her, but she turned him down.
“While using a footpath that passes through some bushes,
Zengeni fondled the complainant’s breasts, and kissed her without her consent.
He asked to be intimate with her again, but she spurned his advances.
“When they arrived at the complainant’s home, there was no
one at home, and Zengeni is alleged to have grabbed her right hand before
dragging her into the kitchen hut. He closed the door and continued pestering
the woman to be intimate with him,” said Ms Chiwanza.
She said Zengeni removed the woman’s baby from her back and
placed him on the floor.
Zengeni allegedly raped the woman once, before leaving.
The woman later made a police report, thereby leading to
Zengeni’s arrest. Manica Post
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