Michael Mashiri
An Ushewekunze father, who was in the habit of raping his 13-year-old daughter claiming that if she did not agree he would kill himself, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje.
Robert Taipa, 59, of Ushewokunze, Waterfalls appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts charged with rape.
The State, through prosecutor Pardon Dziva, alleges that in May 2023, Taipa’s wife who is step-mother to the complainant and his young brother, left home for Budiriro.
She left the complainant and her 10-year-old brother, together with their father.
At around 2000 hours on the same day, Taipa told his daughter to go and sleep in his bedroom as he was going to be on night shift.
She complied and went with her brother and slept there.
Taipa did not go work, he came into the bedroom and told his daughter that he wanted to have sex with her and if she refused he would kill himself and the daughter refused and continued with her sleep.
The following morning, she woke up and saw some white discharge on her private parts and pant, she also realised that the blankets were wet.
She asked her father the meaning of that and was told that he had had sex with her while she was asleep.
On another day in June 2023, she went to sleep in her father’s bedroom and Taipa told her that he wanted to have sex with her and would kill himself if she failed to comply.
Taipa started fondling his daughter’s breasts and buttocks. He removed his trousers and pant as well as his daughter’s and forcibly had sex with her.
She kept quiet about the issue, fearing that her father would kill himself.
Taipa continued with the unsavoury acts on several occasions and at times would do it during the day after she had come back from school.
On June 25, at around 2000 hours, a community care worker, in the company of a member of the community, went to Taipa’s house after being informed of his contemptible actions on his daughter.
When they arrived, Taipa came out and they all entered in the house and found her sleeping in the same bed where her father sleeps.
The community worker took her outside the room that is when she disclosed the sexual abuse and she escorted her to the police station to file a report for rape, leading to her father’s apprehension.
He was ordered to appear in court on July 20. Mambanje ordered him to apply for bail at the High Court since he was facing a third schedule offence.
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