9 May 2008
Ndola — A 14-year-old girl tearfully narrated in a Livingstone magistrates court how she was defiled in an open pre-school building.
This is in a case in which the girl's step-father has been arrested for defilement. Narrating her ordeal before Livingstone magistrate Erasmus Masuwa, the girl, a grade
six pupil, said her mother chased her from home on April 13, around 18:00 hours. This was after her mother discovered that K4,000 had gone missing and accused the girl of having stolen the money.
She told the girl to leave her house until she returned the money that she had allegedly stolen.
The girl told the court that she then went to chat with her friends outside until 20:00 hours whenthey all left for their various homes and she remained alone.
The girl then noticed an open pre-school building near her home and decided to go and seek refuge there.
She sat on one of the desks and rested her head on the table, but as she was about to fall asleep, she heard the door to the room open and a figure walked in.
When she inquired who had entered the house, the man identified himself as her father.
The man then took off the girl's clothes and had sex with her while she struggled to free herself.
The girl toldthe court that it was during that fracas that one of the neighbours, entered the room.
He ran away and the neighbour beat up the girl, accusing her of willingly sleeping with the man.
State prosecutors had a tough time convincing the girl to name the person who had defiled her.
Throughout her testimony, the girl kept crying and failed to categorically mention who had actually defiled her.
This was despite her stating that throughout the sex ordeal, shewas lying face to facewith her defiler.
Trial continues.
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