Ntesang told Mmegi previously that it was not the first time that her husband had molested her daughter. She said that she knew about the sexual abuses but forgave her husband and withdrew the cases she had lodged at the Broadhurst Police Station. She did this because he had asked to be forgiven and vowed never to repeat the crime. The deceased girl was a Standard Four pupil at Tshwaragano Primary School in Gaborone.
Ntesang who is a born-again Christian at the Word of Christ Church said that her faith in God has helped her come to terms with the loss of the two people she loved. “The hate is there but there is nothing I can do because the person who killed my daughter is also dead. I am a born-again Christian and I strongly believe that the losses are the work of the devil in trying to hurt me.
“Forgiveness is a very powerful thing to do and it helps one’s wounds to heal,” she said in a telephone interview yesterday. She asserted that it is not easy for people to understand what she is talking about when she says she believes that her husband was not himself when he killed her daughter. She said the man was possessed by the devil.
“I have forgiven him for what he did and even if he was alive, it would have taken time but still I would have ended up forgiving him,” Ntesang said. She added that after her daughter’s funeral on Saturday in Metlojane, she would travel to Lecheng village to bury her husband. “I will be going there to bury someone that I love because I believe he was possessed by the devil when he murdered my daughter,” she said.
“I cannot change the situation. I have accepted what has happened because there is no one to blame now. I loved my daughter so dearly. She was loving and very jolly and everyone in the neighbourhood adored her. I miss her so much and it is worse when I see her friends who used to play with her,” Ntesang said.
Meanwhile in another incident in Molepolole, a 26-year-old woman from Maun was found dead, with head injuries outside her house at Ntloengwai ward. Molepolole police station commander, Bee Majakumbizi said they suspect that her 29-year-old boyfriend from Maun killed her and later committed suicide.
In Mahalapye, a 37-year-old man appeared in court for stabbing to death an 80-year-old man because he suspected that he was cheating him with his 36-year-old girlfriend. Station commander for Mahalapye Police Station, Alakanani Makobo said the man is in custody and will appear in court on December 19.
