TRAGEDY: Woman Catches Husband Raping Her 13-Year-Old Sister, Commits Suicide

A Chitungwiza woman committed suicide after she caught her husband raping her 13-year-old sister.

According to report, the accused, a 21-year-old soldier had committed the act on three different occasions during his wife's abscence.

The first incident occurred when the woman went to
visit her friend, leaving behind her sister with her husband. The man was said to have fondled the little girl before raping her.

On another occasion, the man asked the girl to come to the shops on the pretext of giving her school shoes. It turned out that the shoe size was too small for the girl, leading the man to take the girl to a nearby village in Seke claiming that he wanted to give her a dress he had bought for her.

At the village, the man reportedly forced himself on the little girl again. Upon arrival home at around 7pm, the girl's sister asked her where she was coming from at that hour of the night and she told her that she had been with the man.

The court heard that the girl's sister unable contain the abuse threw herself in a well, forcing the girl to go and stay with her other sister in the same neighbourhood.

The man has been remanded in custody and charged to court.