Judge tells rape convict: 16 years is reasonable
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Over the years the police and other community leaders have made impassioned pleas begging people especially women not to go to entertainment places such as bars unaccompanied because it puts them at high risk of being raped and other undesirable social ills.
Recently-although accepting that rape can happen to anyone anywhere and not trivialising its effects on victims-a case that has all the hallmarks of what the police have been saying over the years came to live in Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo’s court albeit slightly different.
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