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Zim Woman - Goromonzi - makes a range of allegations against Tutu
21 Oct 2011 at 07:18hrs | Views
"I HAVE made numerous efforts to try and locate Trevor in order that I may serve him with my application for custody of our son.
"Between 2002 and 2003 my lawyers tried in vain to trace Trevor to serve him with the maintenance papers.
"They hired a tracing agent and still there was no success in locating him.
"Thereafter my lawyers resorted to writing to his father, Archbishop Desmond Tutu," she says.
"In March 2004, I sent a written plea to the Tutus in the hope of soliciting an opportunity for my son to talk to his grandfather or Trevor.
"My son has grown up emotionally battered and I am doing what I can to contain the emotional damage.
"If at all I were to get the money, I would use it towards putting him in programmes that will help him to recover emotionally.
"If Archbishop Tutu is genuinely concerned about the well-being of my son, and he knows by now that it is indeed his grandson, why then do we have to go through the hassle of getting a new court order from Canada?" she asks.
"As an elder and Christian leader, does he have to wait for a Canadian court order to fulfil his responsibilities as a grandfather?
"If the grandfather did not volunteer to pay for the DNA tests when his son, Trevor, was not able to do so, what hope is there that he will be willing to pay the child support?"
She alleges Trevor is not a responsible father:
"That is why I threw him out of my house and life in the first place.
"I made a late discovery that he preyed on well situated women, but I was not willing to put up with that, despite my pregnancy.
"Maybe I made an unfortunate blunder of getting involved with Trevor – being what he is. "
"Between 2002 and 2003 my lawyers tried in vain to trace Trevor to serve him with the maintenance papers.
"They hired a tracing agent and still there was no success in locating him.
"Thereafter my lawyers resorted to writing to his father, Archbishop Desmond Tutu," she says.
"In March 2004, I sent a written plea to the Tutus in the hope of soliciting an opportunity for my son to talk to his grandfather or Trevor.
"My son has grown up emotionally battered and I am doing what I can to contain the emotional damage.
"If at all I were to get the money, I would use it towards putting him in programmes that will help him to recover emotionally.
"As an elder and Christian leader, does he have to wait for a Canadian court order to fulfil his responsibilities as a grandfather?
"If the grandfather did not volunteer to pay for the DNA tests when his son, Trevor, was not able to do so, what hope is there that he will be willing to pay the child support?"
She alleges Trevor is not a responsible father:
"That is why I threw him out of my house and life in the first place.
"I made a late discovery that he preyed on well situated women, but I was not willing to put up with that, despite my pregnancy.
"Maybe I made an unfortunate blunder of getting involved with Trevor – being what he is. "
Source - Sunday World
