Incestuous father gets nine years

NDOLA: The Ndola magistrate's court has sentenced a 38-year-old man to nine years imprisonment with hard labour for incest after he was convicted of having carnal knowledge of his 12-year-old daughter.

Before principal resident magistrate, Chilombo Phiri was Simon Sakapalu of house number KT 12 Katolomba Township in Ndola.

Facts before the court are that Sakapalu on December 07,2005 returned home drunk and found his daughter sleeping in the sitting room.
Sakapalu grabbed his daughter from behind and put his hands around her waist and forced himself upon her.

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