Traditional healer jailed for abusing client’s daughter (14)

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FILABUSI — A traditional healer from Northend, Bulawayo, who was hired by a Filabusi woman to conduct rituals at her home, has been slapped with an 18-month jail term for having sexual intercourse with a minor after allegedly falling in love with the woman’s 14-year-old granddaughter.

FILABUSI — A traditional healer from Northend, Bulawayo, who was hired by a Filabusi woman to conduct rituals at her home, has been slapped with an 18-month jail term for having sexual intercourse with a minor after allegedly falling in love with the woman’s 14-year-old granddaughter. SILAS NKALA STAFF REPORTER

Wilbert Ndlovu (29) pleaded not guilty to the charge of having sexual intercourse with a minor when he appeared before Filabusi magistrate Mzingaye Moyo saying they had arranged to get married and were already staying together as husband and wife at the time of his arrest.

However, the magistrate convicted and sentenced him to 24 months in jail. Six months were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour. In sentencing him, Moyo considered Ndlovu’s age and that he had impregnated the 14-year-old girl.

Prosecutor Smart Tafireyi said sometime in August 2012, Ndlovu was consulted by the girls’ mother at Malole to conduct some rituals at her homestead and during his stay, he proposed to the girl and she agreed.

Later that month, they had sexual intercourse and the matter only came to light when she fell pregnant and miscarried.

She went to hospital where it was revealed to her grandmother that she had been pregnant and had had a miscarriage.

She then revealed the source of the pregnancy and her mother was advised to report the matter to the police leading to Ndlovu’s arrest.  Twitter feedback @silasnkala