Father arrested for raping, impregnating own daughter

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Mangochi Police are keeping in custody a 40 year-old man for raping and impregnating his 21 year-old daughter.

Deputy Spokesperson for Mangochi Police Amina Daudi said the victim’s parents got divorced in Mulanje last year and the suspect married another wife in Mangochi. The victim started living with the couple in Mangochi.

In the month of July, 2016, the stepmother went to visit her family leaving the rapist and his daughter at home.

“When the girl was going to sleep her father dragged her to the sitting room and forced himself on her, she shouted for help but he threatened her,” said Daudi.

“The next morning she decided to go to her biological mother in Mulanje but when she was there she didn’t reveal what happened,” added Daudi.

Sex scandalAfter a month, the mother noticed some changes on her daughter’s body and she chased her back to her father. In Mangochi, the rapist forced the victim to stay with another woman who was his sexual partner in order to conceal the matter.

Few months later the rumour started circulating in the village and it took the courage of the members of the community to report the matter to the Police.

The law enforcers summoned the victim and she narrated the whole issue and mentioned her father as the man responsible of pregnancy.

She was told to undergo a pregnancy test and the results from Namalaka Health Centre confirmed that she is 6 months pregnant.

The suspect will appear before court to answer the charge of incest which is contrary to section 157 of the Penal Code.

The rapist hails from Misanjo village, Traditional Authority Mabuka in Mulanje district.