Zambia: A 22-year-old man was reportedly arrested in Luashya District for raping a minor. The Copperbelt Province police identified the suspect as Masuzyo Ngwira.
According to the police officials, the man was a resident of Kamirenda in Luanshya district. Meanwhile, the victim was a fifteen-year-old grade 11 student at Mpelembe Secondary School.
According to the Copperbelt Police Commanding Officer, Peacewell Mweemba, the incident happened on December 6, 2023, around 11:00 AM.
Mweemba revealed that the mother of the victim Dorcas Chilongo aged 37, reported the matter to the police. According to the investigating officials, the suspect lived as a tenant in the fifteen-year-old girl’s grandfather’s house.
The mother of the victim, while reporting the incident to the police provided a brief statement with all the details. Her daughter left home to visit her grandfather on the paternal side but took long to return home.
When the daughter did not return, the mother got concerned as she had other errands to run and wanted to ensure that the daughter was safe. Accordingly, Dorcas (Mother) decided to follow the daughter to the house of her father in law.
After Chilongo reached the neighbourhood where her father in law lived, she called for her daughter. The fifteen year old rushed out of the tenant’s house and the suspect, who was the son of her father-in-law’s tenant, also ran out of the same place.
After noticing what transpired, Chilongo became suspicious and insisted on checking her daughter, where the mother discovered some semen on the victim’s private parts.
The medical examinations confirmed that the girl was sexually abused and the samples revealed it was the accussed Ngwira.
After being satisfied by her own investigation, the matter was reported to the police who instituted investigations. The suspect has since been arrested and is waiting to appear in court soon.