Malawi: Man Sentenced Five Years IHL for Defilement

Mangochi — The Second Grade Magistrate Court in Mangochi has convicted and sentenced 21-year-old Charles Kazembe to five years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a nine year-old girl (name withheld).

The court heard from police prosecutor Inspector Efford Kamphonje that on June 23, this year Kazembe went to the house of the girl who is a Standard two pupil at St. Louis Primary School in Monkey Bay and asked her mother to take the girl and her young sister to a video show room for entertainment.

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