14 year old repeat offender sodomises 5 year old

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has appeared in court for sodomising his five-year-old neighbour and raping another girl. The juvenile from Lupane, who cannot be named because he is a minor, pleaded guilty to indecent assault and rape before Hwange regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga.

Asked why he committed the crimes, the boy said he needed to have a "feel of it."

Mr Malunga sentenced him to receive six cuts with a rattan cane and a suspended two-year prison term for both offences.

The boy was treated as a first offender as both crimes were committed in the same period but the sodomy case was delayed as the victim had no birth certificate.

Prosecuting, Mr Tawanda Sigauke said on January 22 this year at 8AM, the victim's grandmother left her grandson at the accused's home as she attended a funeral.

"At about 9PM, accused and complainant went to bed and shared blankets.

"As the victim was half asleep facing downwards in the middle of the night, accused undressed the little boy and sodomised him.

"When the little boy opened his eyes, he was aided by light coming from the moon and discovered what was happening to him," said Mr Sigauke.

He said the matter came to light when the grandmother asked the little boy why he was limping and he narrated his ordeal. She reported the matter to the police leading to accused's arrest.

The rape case was heard at an earlier date and the records were not readily available.