Police investigations are in progress," said Asst Insp Ndlovu. "We are handling a case of aggravated indecent assault involving a 34-year-old Entumbane man and a six-year-old boy.
He once went to prison after developing a habit of waylaying strangers in the bush and raping them," said a neighbour.Ĭontacted for comment, acting police spokesperson for Bulawayo Assistant Inspector Bekimpilo Ndlovu confirmed the incident.
He does not deserve to be free in society. "If we ever see that man, we shall cut off his private parts. The woman said courts should not show mercy on people like the accused person because he had shown that prison had failed to reform him. I fear that since his whereabouts are unknown, he might kidnap my son when he is coming from school and do worse things to him," she said. This nightmare will not be over until he is behind bars. However, I believe they know where their son is hiding and I appeal to them to tell the police. "These people are my neighbours and I cannot avoid speaking to them daily. I have to bear the additional trauma of waiting three months for another HIV test to determine whether he was not infected," said the boy's mother. "It is a heavy weight in my mind and heart. The boy's mother said she was pained by the abuse her son had suffered. The accused person disappeared on Tuesday and police are still hunting for him," said the grandmother. "They then compiled a report that they sent to the police. She said the boy was examined at the hospital and given medication to reduce chances of contracting HIV. When we took him to Entumbane Clinic they referred us to the police, who in turn referred us to Mpilo Central Hospital," said the grandmother. We called the accused's mother and she examined the boy and said nothing was wrong with him. The grandmother said she called the boy's aunt the following day to question him and he opened up. However, he told his cousins that the man had forced him to have anal sex and threatened to beat him up if he did not comply with his orders," she said. The boy stuck to his story that nothing was wrong. She said the accused person then rushed from the house when he heard her questioning the boy and said he had brought an avocado for the boy. He just said he wanted to go to the toilet," said the grandmother. When I questioned him, he refused to speak. I immediately suspected that something was wrong. His head was hanging down and he looked utterly dejected. "I called his name and he came out of the neighbour's house walking in a strange manner. The boy's grandmother said on the day the incident occurred, she came home in the afternoon and found the boy missing. The boy's mother, who travelled from South Africa after she heard the story, could hardly speak because of grief. Some residents vowed to castrate the man if they ever saw him again. They said he had a rape case thrown out of court due to lack of evidence last year. Residents in the suburb on Monday said the man was an ex-convict who was jailed for seven years in 2002 after being found guilty of rape. The man allegedly took advantage of the absence of the boy's grandmother to lure him to his house on 18 August where he abused him. “The victims were treated after undergoing medical examinations,” Kolo said, lamenting that the children were not properly given parental care.A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo is on the run after allegedly sodomising his neighbour's six-year-old son and forcing him to swallow his semen.
Speaking on the incident, the victims’ mother said, “I got a call from the senior boy who is 13 years who said he informed neighbours that the suspect called him to assist him wash his clothes.Īccording to her, the case has been reported to the Criminal Investigation Department, CID for investigation.ĭescribing the incident as `ungodly and disgusting,’ the DG appealed to parents to always look out for their children and wards and watch out for the the people they mingle with. Sailha said the children were living with her ex-husband, Malam Kasim Adamu and his new wife in Minna, after they were divorced. The mother of the victims, Malama Mohammed Sailha, contacted the agency after she received a distress call from her eldest son, the Punch reports. The suspect, aka ‘Ibro’, was arrested in Randan Ruwa Bosso, in Bosso Local Government Area, LGA, of the state where the incident occurred. The Niger Child Rights Protection Agency has arrested a 20-year-old man, identified as Ibrahim for alleged sexual harassment of two minors in the state.