ZIMBABWE – BULAWAYO – A bid by a city woman to conceal her daughter from her new husband backfired after he fell in love and impregnated her.
The pair, Gift Mativenga (34), the husband and his stepdaughter, Brenda Bhebhe (22), of 9223 Cowdray Park were not asked to plead to contravening Section 75 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, (having sexual intercourse within a prohibited degree of relationship) when they briefly appeared before Bulawayo magistrate, Mrs Lindiwe Mbizwo at Western Commonage Magistrates Courts.
They were remanded on their own cognisance to 25 September.
In his statement, Mativenga said he did not know that Bhebhe was her stepdaughter since his wife introduced her to him as her young sister.
Bhebhe said she was in love with him and she was ready to marry him.
The ‘ couple’ has since been blessed with a child.
Bhebhe’s mother and Mativenga are alleged to have been childless.
In her statement to the police, her mother said she discovered in June that her daughter was pregnant and confronted her, but she denied.
“I then thought that she was just ill but when I asked my husband he told me that he was the one who had impregnated her. We then had a quarrel and from that day he was assaulting me for no reason,” she said.
She said she had to seek for advice from her relatives in Inyathi who took custody of the daughter.
“After having taken my daughter to my rural home, my husband started assaulting me almost everyday telling me to go and bring her back. I then went and collected her and left them in the house in July and I came back to Bulawayo last week, when I made a report to the police,” said the woman’s mother.
Mrs Charity Nyathi for the State told the court that sometime in January, the pair was involved in a sexual relationship.
As a result Bhebhe got pregnant and is now having a baby.
The mother has since left her matrimonial home to her daughter and is now living with her brother. zimGossip.com
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Vana ava. Oliver Mutukudzi was rumoured to have done the same to a daughter of one of her band girls whom she was in love with. Ngaa chigara mushe nemurume wamai. Mai start a new life. Forget about it and forgive them. One day they both will need you.
Comment by Anonymous — September 17, 2009 @ 10:20 am
mhosva ndeya amai avo, i hure, ndivo nanokonzera zvinhu zvakadai, mukadzi ane mwana ari 21 uchada kukwira zvekutororwa, i stupid ya mai, ngava ma me
Comment by borangoma — September 17, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Nyaya yenyu iyi yakadhakwa!!!!!! Hatina zvatingaite. Pachenyu mai nemwana
Comment by me — September 18, 2009 @ 11:57 am
Barangoma the bibles says mukadzi akafirwa anonzwa kuda kuroorwa ngaaroorwe pene kupinda mubhawa. Regai varoorwe chihure ndochakaipa.
Comment by Mai Willy — September 18, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
ko ivo amai ava hw old is she,the daughter is 22 mirume yavo is 34 saka vakaita mwana ne 12yrs umm saka muri pfambi amai, kana kuti you are older than mirume yenyu,,if that is the case better muroorwe nababa vemirume yenyu.ndozvinopfidzisa sei makanyepera mirume yenyu kti mwana haasi wenyu..
Comment by marian — September 18, 2009 @ 6:48 pm