A FISHERMAN of Nsumbu Village in Kaputa has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his nine-year-old step-sister and infecting her with HIV.
Ndola High Court judge Petronella Ngulube sitting in Mansa recently, jailed Samuel Mpepo, 21, after upholding his conviction by the Kaputa Magistrate’s Court.
“The prosecutrix was well known to the convict but he still took advantage of her,” Mrs Justice Ngulube said.
Particulars of the offence are that Mpepo on November 19 last year in Kaputa had unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16.
During trial, the girl, a Grade five pupil, told the court that on the fateful day around 14:00 hours, she was with her brother in the kitchen when Mpepo called her to his bedroom.
“He asked me to get money under his beddings and as I tried to do that, he grabbed me by the neck and forced himself on me,” she said.
She said her mother found Mpepo in the act and rebuked him.
“He started arguing with my mother and she took me to Shikampampa clinic where we were referred to the police,” she said.
The girl said they were later referred to Kaputa District Hospital where she was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection.
In defence, Mpepo denied defiling the girl.
Mpepo claimed that the girl’s mother was upset because he used to send the girl to buy cigarettes for him.
“She used to accuse me of having sex with her daughter using charms which I denied,” Mpepo said.
Passing the sentence, Mrs Justice Ngulube said: “There are aggravating factors in this matter as the prosecutrix was only nine years old,” Mrs Justice Ngulube said.
Tony Anthony
June 4, 2014 at 10:59 am
I always comment on this behaviors ****** bembas have,Why always defile step children,inprenanting biological children & having sex with dogs only happening with bembas only not other tribes?Is it because of Sata now people are not having money to pay prostitutes for sex?Next time vote with your heads not thighs in order to end this problem of defilements & rape cases in bemba land.
Queens & Kings
June 5, 2014 at 9:05 am
antony you are a son of a dog! Walyonkele ku chinyo chakwanoko mustanyoko… never forget that bembas are Kings & Queens in this country… tukamipwa bachimbwi..
Abdul Madada Kasai Kibonje Satunia
June 4, 2014 at 11:09 am
My Bembas again,
gangster
June 5, 2014 at 8:44 am
You would’ve bonked your neighbours dog instead ai.
Jason Nyirenda
June 4, 2014 at 11:16 am
There are a lot of tongas who make love to their animals. Why should the issue of tribe come in?
kabila wa ngunja
June 4, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Imwe ab benba namuchilamo. lyonse nimwebo ba kapanga
wa kwamwanjawanthu
June 4, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Vi ba bemba nyele ya mbuzi, we’ll start chopping you. Sharia law
Live Wire
June 4, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Bonse mwe mbwa mwebalepontela umu bemba mishino shenu mwaba amapuli.
Bemba woman
June 4, 2014 at 5:37 pm
Live wire, sure…
KING MWAMBO
June 4, 2014 at 6:40 pm
Ba finyo fyenu,kwati naubelama mu chinyo chaba noko.ati babemba.fonyo fonyo ,banoko ebobanyengele muchinyo,mutomba banyinenwe,double stanyoko
kombwe
June 4, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Uko.
TUMFWEKO UBUFI NA LELO
June 4, 2014 at 9:10 pm
King Mwambo, U are ******. Utukana fye. Look at U!
TUMFWEKO UBUFI NA LELO
June 4, 2014 at 9:11 pm
King Mwambo, U are *s *t*u *p*i*d. Utukana fye. Look at U!
ayoba
June 4, 2014 at 11:12 pm
I wish Tumfweko editors would block some vulgar comments from morally corrupt people. Umuselu ine
llllllll
June 5, 2014 at 8:46 am
tumfweko loves it the way it is..
T.K
June 5, 2014 at 9:13 am
Defilement cases we do not know what to do.Zambians for how long are you going to be cheated by a witch doctor that by sleeping with a young girl you will get rich?What about him?Is he rich in your normal thinking?When you started your business you were walking.God bless you one way or the other you agree with the witch doctor’s suggestions of short cuts and you end up defiling innocent Children.CASTRATE THEM IT IS TOO MUCH
Umupandapwiti
June 5, 2014 at 10:06 am
I am not talking tribes here, but seriously how can a 21 year old have a nine year old step daughter in this generation? How old is his wife? He is even HIV positive!!! Awe kwena, I think 25 year sentence is not enough. He has destroyed the future of the little girl
maddix
June 5, 2014 at 10:40 am
These thugs ubusing & infecting innocent souls are making it difficult for a girlChild to seek comfort from older morally upright men in distress times.’It’s high time we change our bad morals & Culture for better, and create our world a safe place for our Children.
man u
June 5, 2014 at 8:36 pm
ubwanga sana natutemwisha impiya
tutu
June 6, 2014 at 12:33 pm
chikala aba itole ukusuwa, muputuleniko ubukala chikala chakwe…naimwe ba mabolo mwe balesansa insele pa tumfweko mwaba amapuli ukubola