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NAME OF ARTICLE :Rapist uncle jailed
NAME OF JOURNALIST:’Mahoaba Majoro
DATE: 26 September-02-October 2011
COUNTRY:Lesotho
THEME:gender violence,child abuse
SKILLS:language
GENRE:News
GEM CLASSIFICATION:Gender aware
Maseru-The Maseru Magistrate Court Wednesday sentenced a 23-year-old Semonkong man to 15 years in jail without an option of a fine after finding him guilty of raping his 13-year-old niece. According to the charge sheet, the accused-who can not be named in order to protect the victim, who is a minor -sexually abused the until the matter came to light on August 28 2011.
In her statement, the victim told the Court on August 28, she was at home with the accused, who later asked her to have sex with her, but she refused. ‘This was not the first he wanted to have sex with men. I refused because the first time, it had been painful. So this time, I ran away but my uncle chased and caught up with me.
He took me back to house, laid me on bed, undressed and then raped me. ‘The girl said when her abuser had finished with her; he had ordered her to dress up and never to report the rape to anyone, threatning to assault her, should she reveal the abuse.
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