MUBANGA NONDO, Ndola
TWO girls aged nine and 10 years of Chipulukusu township in Ndola have narrated before the Ndola Magistrate’s Court how a 36-year-old man of the same township allegedly defiled them one after the other.
Narrating their ordeal to magistrate Chitundu Chongo last Thursday when the matter came up for trial, the minors explained that James Tiite first asked them to cook nshima, which they ate together before he allegedly had sex with them.
“We were playing on the material day and then the accused called us and asked us to go to the market to buy cooking oil and charcoal. Upon returning, he asked us to light a fire so that we could cook nshima and we did.
“And after cooking, we all ate the nshima and afterwards he asked us to go to the bedroom with him where he allegedly defiled us one after another,” the victims said.
The nine-year-old victim also told Ms Chongo that Tiite allegedly defiled her friend while she stood aside to watch as the accused had locked the door to the bedroom and hid the keys within the bedroom to prevent her from running away.
And when cross-examined why they did not scream for help if he truly defiled them, the victims told the court that he had threatened to knife them if they told anyone about what had happened and even gave them a K7.50 for them to share.
This is a matter in which Tiite, unemployed and of unknown address but in Chipulukusu, pleaded not guilty to two counts of defilement.
It is alleged that on November 22 last year in Ndola, Tiite had unlawful carnal knowledge of the girls aged nine and 10.
He is in custody.
Daily Mail
