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Doctor drugged, raped me — patient

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A Harare-based medical doctor, Alfred Mamsa, who is accused of raping his 21-year-old patient after drugging her, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge. Mamsa, who operates a surgery at Fife Avenue Medical Centre, told regional magistrate Adonia Masawi, through his lawyer Advocate Moses Mtombeni, he never raped the woman taking into consideration she had […]

A Harare-based medical doctor, Alfred Mamsa, who is accused of raping his 21-year-old patient after drugging her, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Mamsa, who operates a surgery at Fife Avenue Medical Centre, told regional magistrate Adonia Masawi, through his lawyer Advocate Moses Mtombeni, he never raped the woman taking into consideration she had an infection.

Mamsa said the woman, who is a student at Africa University, simply fantasised after being injected with a drug during the process of examining her.

However, in her evidence-in-chief, the woman said on March 19 this year, she made an appointment to visit Mamsa and was booked for 6:30pm that day.

She said: “I asked him what time I would see him and he said 6:30pm. When I got there he was alone and we started having a casual talk and he told me he always liked me. I lied to him I was married and we just laughed it off.”

Later, she said, she explained to Mamsa she was experiencing cramps in her stomach and irregular menstrual periods.

The court heard Mamsa indicated he wanted to examine the woman and ordered her to remove all her clothes.

“He asked me to lie on the bed and take off my jeans and underwear,” she told the court. “He told me he would inject me so I would not feel uncomfortable during the examination.”

The woman said the first thing she felt after being injected was force of someone on top of her and as she tried to figure out what was happening, she asked Mamsa what was going on to which he replied: “ I will just do it a little and only once.” The court heard the doctor allegedly held the woman’s both hands and had sexual intercourse with her.

The woman said she later woke up at 8:20pm and realised she was still covered with bedsheets after which she dressed up and told Mamsa she wanted to go home.

The court heard when the woman asked Mamsa what had happened, he simply said he got what he wanted and on their way home Mamsa apologised, an assertion he denied.

The matter continues today.