A WOMAN left her 10-year-old daughter under the custody of her 40-year-old boyfriend who then allegedly repeatedly r_ped the minor.
The woman relocated to the United Kingdom.
Her boyfriend, Kudzai Gonorenda, now faces r_pe charges.
He allegedly spiked her meals, with an unknown substance, at various intervals, which would make the child lose consciousness, before r_ping her.
The abused child was even secretly taken to hospital by Gonorenda’s new girlfriend.
Gonorenda appeared before magistrate Taurai Manuwere who remanded him in custody to May 29 for the trial commencement.
Circumstances are that sometime in September last year, the complainant’s mother relocated to the United Kingdom and left her daughter in the custody of her boyfriend.
It is the State’s case that sometime in March, on a date the complainant cannot remember, Gonorenda prepared rice and beef for supper and gave it to her.
While she was eating, she started feeling dizzy and slept.
She woke up the next day in her bed, n_ked and experiencing pain on her pr!vate parts.
She allegedly passed out on several occasions and would wake up n
