Kanye — A 47-year-old Ranoi Primary School teacher in Lotlhakane West is in police custody for on suspicion that he raped a 14-year-old year standard three girl at the same school.

Senior Supt Chabaesele Mazebedi of the Botswana Police Service said the teacher sent the girl to go and bring him a red pen from his house at around 11 a.m d.

He says, "the teacher then followed her to his house and ordered her to get the red pen from his bedroom and innocently, she opened the bedroom door only for him to follow her again and locked the door and raped her twice with a condom."

Supt Mazebedi said the girl was released and was told not to tell anyone what happened. He said that after school, when the young girl got home, she told her mother, who then reported the matter to the police.

In another case, Supt Mazebedi said a 26-year-old man raped a woman of 37 years of Lopatlaoka ward in Kanye on July 23 at night.

The two were on a drinking spree at a Chibuku depot and later, the man bought three pints of Chibuku and went to his house with the complainant.

He said the woman said after sometime, she wanted to go and the accused angrily locked the door and grabbed her, forcing her to undress.

Supt. Mazebedi said the victim reported that the man raped her three times without a condom.

Superintendent Mazebedi said the woman was released after she lied to the accused that she had stomach ache. The suspect was in police custody.