Unusual DNA Exonerations of Alleged “Female Rapists” in Zimbabwe Charged with Robbing Men of Semen at Gunpoint…

Three women, who early this year made headlines after being accused of sexually attacking male hitchhikers in search of semen, yesterday escaped life imprisonment after forensic DNA results exonerated them from the offences.

The women — Sophie (26) and Netsai (24) Nhokwara and Rosemary Chakwizira (28) — and their male co-accused Thulani Ngwenya (24) were being charged with contravening Section 66 (1) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, for which if one is convicted would attract the same sentence as in rape cases.Charges against the quartet were withdrawn by prosecutor Tapiwa Kasema after the State cited lack of evidence.

Asked by regional magistrate Fadzai Mthombeni why the State had decided to withdraw the charges, Kasema said:

“Considering the correspondence from the Attorney-General’s (AG) Office dated April 20 2012, the results from South Africa exonerated the accused from the case of aggravated indecent assault.”

However, Kasema told the court that the AG’s Office had instead decided to prefer soliciting charges against Netsai and Rosemary.

The two will be charged with contravening Section 81(2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

The two were remanded to May 10 and 16 respectively in different courts.

Netsai will be tried in Court 11 while Rosemary would stand trial in Court 5.

Kasema advised the court that Netsai and Rosemary would be served with necessary court papers to enable them to prepare their defence.
All the accused were accompanied by their lawyer Arnold Taruvinga.

Allegations were that the three women were suspected to be part of a syndicate of female “rapists” terrorising male hitchhikers along the country’s main highways and “raping” them at gunpoint.

They were arrested at an accident scene on October 8 last year when they had allegedly gone to the spot to collect their “valuable loot”.

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One response to “Unusual DNA Exonerations of Alleged “Female Rapists” in Zimbabwe Charged with Robbing Men of Semen at Gunpoint…”

Docile Jim Brady – Columbus OH 43209 | May 3, 2012 at 10:39 am | Reply

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Since Mark did not author:
“Three women, who early this year made headlines after being accused of sexually attacking male hitchhikers in search of semen … ” ; I’ll whine here rather than in private mail .
☺That’s what Virgos do☺

I , and probably Mark , would have written “Three women, in search of semen, who early this year made headlines after being accused of sexually attacking male hitchhikers … ”

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