SODOMIZER ACCOUNTANT LOCKED FOR LIFE: for having carnal knowledge of his 5-year-old nephew
Written by Millennium on September 4, 2019
CHINTU MALAMBO writes
@SunZambian
AN accountant of Lusaka West has been jailed to life imprisonment with hard labour for sodomising his five-year-old nephew.
This is in a case in which Victor Mulungwe 41, of Betty Farm was charged with unnatural offences.
It is alleged that on November 27, 2014 in Lusaka, Mulungwe had carnal knowledge of a child against the order of nature.
Mulungwe had denied the charge but was convicted at the conclusion of the trial.
During the court heard that on the material day, the victim’s parents were looking for him after he went to play outside his parent’s house.
later the child was found at Mulungwe’s house standing between his uncle’s legs.
The child, who was looking sad, was later taken to his parent’s house.
When asked why he was looking sad, the child could not disclose.
The court heard that the child later complained of pain in his genitals.
When taken to the clinic, it was discovered that his anal passage had cracks.
The victim later told his grandparents and counselors at the clinic that Mulungwe was the one who defiled him.
The child’s father told the court that the incident left his child withdrawn.
He further told the court that for two weeks, the child could not pass stool until he was taken back to the hospital for further treatment.
The man said the victim also developed a boil in the testicles.
Mulungwe denied the allegations claiming that he was framed.
But Lusaka Magistrate Aridah Chulu convicted Mulungwe of the offence and committed him to the High Court for sentencing on grounds that she had no doubt that the convict took advantage of the boy.
And when the matter came up for sentencing before Justice Elita Mwikisa on Monday, she upheld the lower court’s conviction.
And National Prosecutions Authority senior State advocate under the gender based crime unit Bob Mwewa submitted that looking at the plight that the victim suffered, a maximum sentenced should be meted out on the convict.
In her judgment, Justice Mwikisa said the offence Mulungwe committee was very serious and on the increase in society.
“The child suffered such traumatic pain that one cannot even comprehend how an uncle can defile the young brother’s child, you are therefore jailed for life” she said.
