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Teenager (14) gets probation for abusing girl (5)

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A 14-YEAR OLD Greendale, Harare, teenager was yesterday ordered to serve a three-year probation term at Catch Foundation for sexually abusing

A 14-YEAR OLD Greendale, Harare, teenager was yesterday ordered to serve a three-year probation term at Catch Foundation for sexually abusing a five-year old girl.

CHARLES LAITON SENIOR COURT REPORTER

The boy, whose name has been withheld, was attending school at Tafara High School at the time he committed the offence two years ago.

He was convicted on his own plea of guilty to aggravated indecent assault when he appeared before regional magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni.

“The accused is sentenced to undergo supervision by a probation officer for three years as he will be receiving special counselling services at Catch Foundation,” Mtombeni said.

The court heard the incident occurred on October 18, 2012 when the boy called the girl to his room and sexually molested her.

The matter came to light after the girl spilled the beans to her guardian, leading to the teenager’s arrest.

In an unrelated matter, a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employee, Pearson Kadzviti, was slapped with a 24-month jail term for stealing a 500-kilovolt amp (kVA) transformer valued at $13 200.

Kadzviti, who was based at ZETDC Mabelreign Depot, will, however, serve an effective 18 months after six months were suspended on condition of good behaviour by Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa.

The court heard that Kadzviti was employed as a lead artisan at Mabelreign Depot at the time he committed the offence last July.

State counsel Gift Zumbika told the court that on July 4, 2013, Kadzviti called his superior, Godfrey Mundora, on his mobile phone and misrepresented to him that he had been approached by ZETDC central business district depot requesting to borrow the depot’s 500kVA transformer and permission was granted.

The court further heard, after being granted permission, Kadzviti hired a crane from Chayamiti Brothers to deliver the transformer from Mabelreign to Spear Tec Electrical in the city centre where he sold it to the company’s director Tirivangani Muringani.

After the transactions, Kadzviti is said to have issued out an invoice in the sum of $13 200 dated July 15, which was on an Eucono Transformers letterhead. Four days later he received another payment of $8 316.

According to the evidence adduced in court, Muringani intended to install the transformer at Innscor Fast Foods at the corner of Robson Manyika Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way.

The transformer scam, however, came to light when ZETDC received a tip-off from Kadzviti’s workmate and the matter was reported to police, leading to his arrest and recovery of the stolen property.