NTCHISI (MaraviPost)—The Ntchisi First Grade Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an eleven year old girl.
Ntchisi Police spokesperson Gladson M’bumpha told Maravi Post that, the convict, Cosmas Mphonde, defiled the girl on April 15 2016 at Chimbunde Village in the area of Traditional Authority Malenga in
the district.
“The court learnt that on the day, the girl was at her friend’s house
playing and in course of playing her friend was called by her mother to wash plates and the girl thought of going home but on her way, she was caught and pushed in a maize garden where the convict defiled her,” narrated M’bumpha.
Medical examination at Ntchisi District proved that the victim’s private parts was indeed tampered with.
In her ruling, First Grade Magistrate Dorothy Kalua sentenced Mphonde to 10 years with hard labour to deter would-be offenders.
Meanwhile, M’bumpha also disclosed that the court has also sentenced a 30-year-old Piason Nthimbo to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for committing the offence of burglary and theft.
The material facts of the case on which the accused was convicted was that the accused on March 4 2016 broke into a house of Magret Makawa at Kachulu location in the district where he stole items valued at K200 000.