12-year-old 'drugged, sodomised daily over two weeks' by 71-year-old man

A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly lured a 12-year-old boy to his Trenance suburban home before sodomising him twice per day for two weeks after forcing him to smoke dagga and drink beer.

The matter came to light when the boy was allegedly caught red-handed imitating sexual moves while on top of his one-year-old sister. The boy also allegedly fondled his eldest sister's buttocks.

His father allegedly questioned him and he revealed that Davidson Mbambo (71) had sexually abused him when he ran away from home for two weeks.

The boy told regional magistrate Chrispen Mberewere that Mbambo used to send him to buy marijuana which they smoked together before he sodomised him.

His father took to the witness stand yesterday and said his son ran away to Mbambo's home thrice and his family had to engage the police to bring his son back home.

"My son went missing for about two weeks and the neighbours tipped me off that Mbambo was keeping him in his house. I then went to the police who accompanied me to his house and warned him against keeping my son without my knowledge," said the man.

"I started noting some anomalies in him and one day I saw him mounting my youngest daughter aged one. He even fondled his sister's buttocks and this left all of us dumbfouded."

The court heard that the boy ran away from home for the second time and was found in Mbambo's home.

"Again I engaged police and we managed to find my son and proceeded to the police station. I asked him to go home while I finalised with the police and at that moment he ran away and went back to Mbambo's place," he said.

Under cross examination, Mbambo lambasted the boy's father for failing to meet the needs of his nine children.

"The reason why your son ran away was because you are a harsh and violent father who is not in good books with anyone. You are failing to feed your nine children," he said.

Mbambo also claimed that there was a 14-year-old boy who had sodomised the same boy.

Mberewere remanded the matter to today for continuation of trial.