By ALEX NJOVU
THE Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) on the Copperbelt has called on the police to arrest a Kitwe businessman who has allegedly been defiling his sister-in-law since she was 11 years old.
The girl, who is now 20 years old and a student at one of the colleges in Lusaka, reported the matter to YWCA after the named businessman impregnated her and forced her to terminate the pregnancy last year.
Copperbelt YWCA provincial coordinator Jurita Mutale said the named man has allegedly threatened to kill the girl if she reported the matter to anyone.
Ms Mutale said the suspect recently went on rampage and caused extensive damage to the house of his in-laws in Ndeke Township after he reported his in-law to the police for allegedly accusing him of impregnating their daughter.
“There is a businessman in Kitwe who has been defiling his sister-in-law since she was in grade five at 11 years old that was in 2000. Her elder sister, who is married to the same man instructed her younger sister then to be opening the door for her husband in the evening when he knocked off from work and serve him with food while she was sleeping in the bedroom. It was at this moment that he would sleep with her. In fact the first time when he had sexual intercourse with her he slept with her on top of a deep freezer. On Sundays when his wife went to church, he would remain at home and defile the girl,” Ms Mutale said.
She said that the businessman continued having sex with the girl after she had gone to a secondary school in Kalulushi.
She said the suspect told the girl that since he was paying her school fees and supporting her parents financially, it was fair that he continued having sex with her but strongly warned her against telling any member of her family.
“The girl did not know that what the man was doing to her was defilement until the issue was debated in her classroom and when she went home she decided not to be opening the door for her brother-in-law but her sister was annoyed with her and instructed her to continue opening the door for her husband. This compelled her to continue opening the door and one night her brother-in-law threatened her with a gun and warned her against telling anyone about what was happening. He warned that he was going to kill her, kill her sister (his wife) and then turn the gun on himself,” she said.
Ms Mutale said when the girl went to a college in Kitwe the man continued having sex with her and she conceived in December last year but he forced her to terminate the pregnancy.
She said the girl was given some drugs by a man who was hired by her brother-in-law and terminated the pregnancy the same day.
She said the victim’s elder sister who is married to the suspect, has allegedly turned against her relatives and her younger sister.
“In fact when the girl told the other elder sister about who was responsible for her pregnancy, the man took his wife for holiday outside the country. He has now threatened to sue the girl for character assassination.
“He is using power to silence his in-laws. When he damaged his in-laws’ house, he was reported to the police for malicious damage to property but the police failed to arrest him. After sometime he sent his own sister and gave her K 2.5 million to apologise on his behalf to his in-laws saying he did not know what he was doing and asked them to use the money to repair the house,” she said.
She said the girl is now living in fear because her brother-in-law has threatened to deal with them for alleged character assassination.
She called on the police not to compromise their profession and desist from protecting wrong doers.
Ms Mutale said the girl and her parents decided to involve YWCA officials after realising that the police officers who were handling the case had allegedly been compromised.
She said it is worrying that the girl’s elder sister has not been there for her sister even when she knows that the younger sister’s future has been affected negatively.
She said the girl has been traumatised for a long time.
“This man is using his money to intimidate people, he has served the girl with court summons for character assassination and in his summons he is claiming that the girl is a school drop out when she is not. He is claiming that the girl is his wife’s niece when she is the young sister of his wife. I advised the family not to sign the court summons because the information on it is wrong,” She said.
Copperbelt police commanding officer Martin Malama said he has not yet received a report on the matter.
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