A 20-year-old man from Magunje was sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping his employer’s daughter on different occasions.

The man appeared before the Karoi magistrate’s courts charged with two counts of rape.

Sometime in March 2024, the man who worked as a pastor met the complainant (12), who was his employer’s daughter, who was coming home from school.

He dragged her to a nearby bush and raped her. The man fled the scene after committing the crime.

He also raped the author on another day in the same month of March, while they were working in a tobacco barn, before threatening to attack her if she told her mother about the crime.

At some point in May 2024, the man also fondled the complainant’s breasts and she told her mother about the incident.

The author’s mother ordered the man to desist from this behavior. The rape incidents came to light when the complainant became pregnant and told her mother about the crimes.

A police report was made which led to the man’s arrest.