• Step-Dad says “I don’t know.”
• Baby crying uncontrollably with hands on her private parts.
• White semen on the thighs and private parts.
• Child’s vagina producing a bad smell.

It was a blessing in disguise that a Chiredzi woman forgot a towel on her way to the well as she, on coming back allegedly discovered that her two-year-and-three-months old baby had just been raped by her step-father in whose custody she had been left.
The baby was crying uncontrollably with her hands on her private parts and when the accused John Chisasa (33) was asked about the baby he allegedly said he didn’t know what had happened to her.
However, the mother checked the complainant and noticed that she had white fluids identical to sperms(semen) on the thighs and on her private parts.
The local Mirror reports that Chisasa who resides at Village 3B Ruware in Chiredzi appeared before Regional Magistrate Collet Ncube facing a rape charge.
It is a State case that on November 1, 2014 Joyce Maredza left the complainant with the accused as she proceeded to fetch some water.
After walking for a while, Maredza noticed that she had forgotten a towel so she turned back and found the complainant crying.
On November 7, 2014 Maredza realised that the complainant’s vagina was producing a bad smell and took her to Chiredzi General Hospital for medication.
At the hospital the complainant’s mother was informed that the girl was raped and there was need for a Police report. Maredza then reported the matter to Mkwasine ZRP. The child was examined by a medical doctor and a medical report was produced in court as an exhibit.
The State was represented by Sophia Bhusvumani. The case will continue on July 1, 2015.-Mirror