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$1,000 demanded to withdraw rape charge backfires
14 Jul 2015 at 09:46hrs | Views
A BULAWAYO family's attempt to extort $1,000 from a tenant they falsely accused of raping their daughter backfired yesterday when a magistrate acquitted the man.
A family member allegedly caught Wellington Kambarami, 36, who is married, engaging in sex with their daughter, Charity Tshuma, 19. The family, from Woodville suburb claimed Kambarami had raped the girl and reported him to the police.
According to the Chronicle, they later withdrew the case after Kambarami signed an agreement making an undertaking to pay the family $1,000.
The family later decided to have Kambarami prosecuted after he paid $600 and failed to raise the remainder.
Kambarami yesterday told senior regional magistrate Trynos Utahwashe that he had consensual sex with Tshuma.
He produced pictures and a video to prove he was in a relationship with her.
Tshuma produced torn panties and a blouse as exhibits to prove she was raped.
Kambarami said, "We fell in love in April and during the same month we had consensual sex inside a room I was renting at the family's house in Woodville. On April 25 while we were engaging in sex, her brother knocked at my door and she jumped out of the room through a window," he said.
He said Tshuma told her mother that she was raped after her brother told their parents that he had seen her jumping from the room undressed through the window.
Magistrate Utahwashe said he was angry because Tshuma wasted the court's time by still insisting she did not know Kambarami even after he produced pictures.
He found Kambarami not guilty and acquitted him.
A family member allegedly caught Wellington Kambarami, 36, who is married, engaging in sex with their daughter, Charity Tshuma, 19. The family, from Woodville suburb claimed Kambarami had raped the girl and reported him to the police.
According to the Chronicle, they later withdrew the case after Kambarami signed an agreement making an undertaking to pay the family $1,000.
The family later decided to have Kambarami prosecuted after he paid $600 and failed to raise the remainder.
Kambarami yesterday told senior regional magistrate Trynos Utahwashe that he had consensual sex with Tshuma.
He produced pictures and a video to prove he was in a relationship with her.
Tshuma produced torn panties and a blouse as exhibits to prove she was raped.
Kambarami said, "We fell in love in April and during the same month we had consensual sex inside a room I was renting at the family's house in Woodville. On April 25 while we were engaging in sex, her brother knocked at my door and she jumped out of the room through a window," he said.
He said Tshuma told her mother that she was raped after her brother told their parents that he had seen her jumping from the room undressed through the window.
Magistrate Utahwashe said he was angry because Tshuma wasted the court's time by still insisting she did not know Kambarami even after he produced pictures.
He found Kambarami not guilty and acquitted him.
Source - chronicle
