Zim Now Writer
In a bizarre case, a 43-year-old herdboy from Togotsvebo Village in Mphoengs, Matabeleland South Province, Njabulo Moyo, confessed to his interest in goats when he appeared in court charged with raping two goats, leading to one of them dying during the act.
This came to light when Moyo appeared before Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware, where he pleaded guilty to bestiality as defined in Section 74 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.
Moyo was spared jail and sentenced to pay a fine of US$200 or one month in prison in default of payment.
In addition two months’ imprisonment were wholly suspended for a period of five years on condition Moyo does not within that period commit any offence of which bestiality is an element.
During trial, Moyo made an appalling revelation saying he had engaged in sex with goats because they satisfied his sex urge.
“I don’t know what was happening, I just found myself doing it with the goats because they satisfied my sex demand. I am sorry for what I did,” Moyo apologised.
Magistrate Nembaware, however, expressed described Moyo’s act as “grotesque cruelty”, adding that it was the “highest form of animal cruelty” he had ever seen.
The State, through prosecutor Arnold Mudekunye, said that on October 1 and at around 3am, Michael Ncube woke up when he heard his goats bleating and his dogs were also barking continuously.
He proceeded to the goat pen to investigate and busted Moyo busy having sex with one of his female goats.
Ncube then asked him what he was doing and Moyo threatened to beat him up before ordering him to leave.
Ncube complied and went away to his bedroom to sleep, leaving behind Moyo to continue having sex with the goat.
Around 6am the following morning, the court heard, Ncube proceeded to the goat pen where he discovered that two of his female goats had been sexually abused and one of them was dead with some semen on its rear, an indication that it had died as a result of the sexual abuse.
He notified neighbours, who tracked a trail of footprints from the goat pen which led them to Moyo’s place.
They located him and took him to the police.
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