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Man rapes boy, 15
by Peter Makossah and Denis Mzembe, 03 October 2003 - 10:51:27
A 49-year-old man on Tuesday night pounced on a 15-year-old boy in a resthouse room in the lakeshore district of Mangochi and sodomised him, leaving the victim in pain and a pool of blood.
Deputy Police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa confirmed in an interview Wednesday that police in Mangochi are holding Stanford Chaima of Gundadzuwa Village in Traditional Authority Chilikumwendo in Dedza for allegedly sodomising a 15-year-old boy.
The incident took place at Chinyangala Resthouse on Tuesday evening at around 7 PM, Maigwa said.
He said Chaima is suspected to have raped the boy, who was selling samoosas, after inviting him to his room on the pretext that he wanted to buy some samoosas.
“We have charged him with sodomy and will take him to court soon after our investigations are through,” said Maigwa.
A relative to the boy, Osman Ajusu, in a telephone interview Thursday said: “I still don’t believe it happened and why it happened. I don’t see any justification for a man to do such an abominable thing to a poor boy when there are a lot of women around. This total madness.”
A similar incident happened in Mzuzu a some months ago in which a man raped his waiter in a restaurant.
Meanwhile an eight-year-old girl is lying in hospital in Mangochi after being defiled by a 21-year-old man on Monday.
The girl was allegedly dragged into a bush by one Umali James as she was going to the lake, Maigwa said Thursday.
He said the girl’s private parts were torn and her face and neck were bruised.
“She was saved by her sister who heard her crying in the bush and the [alleged] defiler has since been arrested,” Maigwa said.
Maigwa advised parents not to let their children walk alone in secluded places “and as much as possible, children must move in groups even when going to school”.
In another interview, coordinator of network against gender based violence, Emma Kalia, said; “we strongly condemn this behaviour and hope the law will take it’s course”.
Kalia, who went to Mangochi to see the girl, said the girl was having her private parts sutured on Thursday.
 
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