Blind Teacher Charged With Rape, Defilement

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FRANCISTOWN: Pleas were on Friday reserved in a case in which a virtually blind music instructor at Lephoi Centre for the Blind here is charged with multiple sex related offences.

The accused, Mpho Keikabile, 32, of Monarch, is facing three counts of rape that he allegedly committed between November 15, 2015 and February 21, 2016 at Lephoi Centre in Monarch. The state also alleges that Keikabile committed two counts of indecent assault that he committed during a date unknown to the prosecution in February 2016 at Lephoi.

He allegedly committed the offences by caressing the private parts of his victims.

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