GRAPHIC details of the r@p3 and indecent @ss@ult of a young woman by her brother-in-law, stretching over 17 years, starting when she was only 11, in which she was forced to ab0rt twice, have emerged.
The accused is businessman Ishmael Matyenyika.
He den!3d the allegations and told the court he was in a r0mantic relationship with the complainant which turned sour when he discovered that she was lesb!@n.
Ironically, the complainant said her mother conceived her after she was also r@ped by her brother-in-law.
She has now found herself in exactly the same circumstances.
She told the court that her sister’s husband has been @bus!ng her since 2007 and forced her to ab0rt two pregnancies.
Matyenyika (47) appeared before Harare regional magistrate, Themba Kuwanda, charged with two counts of r@pe and aggravated indecent @ss@ult.
The State is alleging that sometime in 2007, at around 7am, the complainant, who is now aged 25, went to Matyenyika’s place of residence for a holiday.
She was 11 at the time.
During the holiday, the complainant’s sister, who is Matyenyika’s wife, would go for school run leaving him and complainant at home.
On one occasion, Matyenyika invited the complainant into his bedroom where he made her sit on his lap, and forced her to touch his pr!v@te p@rts because, he told her, she was now his new wife who had been given to him by her parents.
This continued to happen on several occasions until 2011 and the complainant did not tell anyone.
On the second charge, the State alleged that sometime in 2011, the complainant was asked to give Matyenyika food in his b3droom and he r@p3d her once.
The r@pe continued till in 2014 but the complainant did not disclose this to anyone because she was not very close to her family members.
She became pregnant, as a result of the r@pe, and Matyenyika allegedly gave her some tablets to ab0rt the pregnancy.
Later that year, she revealed the r@pe to her sister’s friend.
The court heard in 2016, the complainant started working for Matyenyika at his restaurant and he would take her to different lodges and hotels and s3xu@lly @buse her.
In 2018, the complainant became pregnant again and was given abortion pills by Matyenyika.
In 2022,complainant became pregnant for the third time and refused to ab0rt the pregnancy.
She gave birth to a baby who was adopted by Social Welfare and is currently under the care of a foster parent
After the birth of the child, the complainant narrated her story to her aunt who tried to resolve the issue.
This is when she filed a police report against Matyenyika.
In her evidence in chief, the complainant told the court that she grew up living a miserable life and her birth was as a result of r@pe.
She told the court that her biological mother was allegedly r@ped by her elder sister’s husband and only got to know about it when she was in Form Three.
She told the court that Matyenyika took advantage of her situation and r@ped her even though she saw him as the only person who truly cared for her.
Source H-Metro
