HIV positive man (57) rapes neighbour (7) gives her R2

A HIV positive 57-year-old Mzilikazi man who allegedly forced his seven-year-old neighbour to lick his manhood before raping her pleaded with a magistrate not to remand him in custody so that he could take his ARVs.

Appearing before Bulawayo Magistrate Gladmore Mushove, the man whose identity is withheld to protect the minor, was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, rape and contravening a section of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act.

He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court when he pleaded with the courts to remand him out of custody so he could take his medication.

The prosecutor Nyasha Kuture told the court that on an unknown date between November 2013 and January 2014, the man called the child to his residence.

He led her to his bedroom and removed his pair of trousers and asked the girl to lick his erect male organ and gave her R2 before ordering her to leave his house.

"The accused again on an unknown date called the girl to his house and told her that he wanted to have sex with her so he could give her some money. The girl refused and the man grabbed her and raped her once threatening to call the complainant's aunt if she did not cooperate. After the act, the girl was given $1 which the man claimed to be a $5 note and ordered her to go home," he said.

He said the man raped the girl again sometime in November. After the act he forced the girl to stroke his organ until he ejacul@ed. He then gave her $2 and told not to reveal the matter to anyone."

The man denied the allegations and requested to be remanded out of custody saying he had to adhere to a strict timetable for taking my antiretroviral tablets.

He was remanded in custody to January 28.