Paedophile gets 10 years

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FRANCISTOWN: A convicted paedophile, who at one point raped his niece in a living room while her mother was taking a bath in an adjacent room, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in jail, after a tongue lashing by Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi.

Basupi told the man that he was a shame for having found it fit to defile his 13-year-old niece while he was expected to protect her from harm. The man committed the offences at the family’s home in Area H in 2013.

Basupi said that it will be unreasonable to say that the convict did not know the age of the complainant because they were close relatives who lived under the same roof for many years.

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