Woman jailed for assisting man to rape her 6-year-old daughter
MUTARE — The Mutare Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 43-year-old woman, to 10 years in prison for facilitating the rape of her 6-year-old daughter, in Penhalonga, in 2022.
The offender assisted an adult male unknown to the prosecutor, to rape the child. The incident happened one afternoon soon after the child arrived home from school.
The mother undressed the child while the unknown male was watching sitting on the bed. She then instructed her child to lie on her back on the bed. The unknown male took off his clothes and raped the child once, while the mother was watching, sitting on a chair in the bedroom.
The matter eventually came to light in April 2024 when the child was living with her grandmother and she discovered that the child was suffering from urinary incontinence. The child narrated that it began soon after she was raped. She revealed the role that her mother had played in the ordeal.
