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Botswana: P6000.00 for Sleeping With Friend's Husband
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The Voice (Francistown)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Chenjelani Baraedi
Francistown
A marriage wrecker, who was found hiding in a family wardrobe by her date's shocked wife, was this Tuesday ordered to pay P6 000 by the Tati customary court.
Keneilwe Dayton of Kgaphamadi in Francistown was fined after she failed to explain why she concealed herself in Kerapetswe Motlhatlhedi's wardrobe on April 19th. Though Dayton decided to plead not guilty to charges of marriage wrecking, she never challenged the statement given by both the complainant and other witnesses.
The court heard how the 22-year-old lass, who is also a family friend and neighbour, was found hiding in the wardrobe after her date's wife unexpectedly returned home from a funeral wake in Matsiloje Village.
Motlhatlhedi caught the illicit lovers by chance. She had just dashed back to pick something in Francistown and was shocked to see Dayton with her husband.
"I never suspected anything until that night. I stumbled on him in town while in the company of a lady, in the family car and they were both nursing bottles of beer," Motlhatlhedi said, adding that, "Although I had to rush back, I decided to wait around and see what was going on."
Since she was in another car, which her husband did not recognise, Motlhatlhedi followed secretly until the couple reached the family house in Block 10.
"I was with my sister and we just parked the car we were using some distance away and stayed in watch until we saw the two sneaking into the house. Since I knew that they would not open the house if I knock at the door, I asked the driver to take me to my mother's place to get a spare key," revealed the heartbroken woman.
On her return from her parents' place in Kgaphamadi, she opened the back door and headed straight to the family bedroom. "When I knocked and told my husband that I was home, he asked why," said Motlhatlhedi, adding that although she lied that there was a problem back in the village, her husband refused to unlock the door and ordered her to explain the problem while outside.
Ignoring the man's delaying tactics, she just begged him to open pointing that she wouldn't talk to him while outside since the issue was serious.
When her husband, Tom Mogolodi, finally opened the door she pretended not to be suspecting anything and put her bags on the bed.
"I then quickly dashed to the door and locked it and snapped off the key and headed straight to the wardrobe and swung it open. I saw a person in jeans and dragged her out only to find that it was my neighbour."
After a bit of slapping, Dayton confessed to having an affair with Motlhatlhedi's husband. "It was then that I telephoned her sister to come and pick her up and also seized her phone as part of my evidence,"
Although she never challenged the evidence led by all the witnesses called in court, Dayton claims that she merely asked for a lift to Area L from Motlhatlhedi's husband. She pointed that Mogolodi then suggested that he was going to drop something home where he later asked her to join him in the family bedroom while they wait for a friend.
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Deputy Court President Edward Showa, however, dismissed Dayton's evidence as a pack of lies before convicting her of marriage wrecking. Although the complainant had asked for P10 000 in compensation, the court ordered the marriage wrecker to pay P6 000 over a period of six months.
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