A father who was accused of impregnating his own child breathed a sigh of relief when a DNA test recently saved him from a possible long imprisonment.
Goodhope Police confirmed in an interview this week that the 58-year- old- man from Mmathethe village in the Southern District was recently cleared by DNA tests.
“The tests did not implicate him in anyway and therefore the matter was dismissed. The man was charged with incest, a serious crime that can attract not less that a 10-year jail sentence but he is now free,” revealed the Goodhope Police Station commander, Thapelo Ngiye in an interview.
In November 2010, the then 14-year old girl, told one of her school teachers and her mother that her father was responsible for her pregnancy and that he had sexually molested her for a long time before she fell pregnant. At the time, she was about six months pregnant and the matter was then brought to the attention of the police.
The girl’s parents separated in 2007 and she stayed with her mother but visited her father from time to time.
According to a testimony in court made by the girl’s mother in December 2010, the girl wrote a note and claimed that her father assaulted her sexually several times.
“My daughter wrote me a note and told me it was her father who impregnated her. She said she forced her into early sex soon after our separation three years ago,” she had stated.
The woman further added: “She said when her father discovered that she was pregnant, he asked her if she had ever had sex with somebody else besides him and when she said she had a boyfriend he told her to implicate the boyfriend.”
Although the man denied all the allegations, the teenager maintained the statement in court. But her father was allowed bail pending the DNA tests.
The baby was born in February last year but the tests were only done this year.
“It took long for the tests to be done because as you may be aware, we have only one forensic department and it serves the whole country,” Ngiye explained.
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This should put all of us to shame, that a father can be implicated in impregnating his daughter. We have a closely related story of a father yet again caressing his daughter’s private parts. What is society coming to, the very elderly who we look to for guidance are now becoming mental cases. Bagolo ako re leseng go senya bagolo ba bangwe maina.
bananyana ba ba maka ke bone ba ba eletsang bo rraabone, if o ne a rapilwe o ne etela ragwe ka le lereng ka o ne a ka bo a sale a sietse ruri le magwe, a ngwana a fapaane le ragwe a ye toronkong go a ketsa lekgota le molao,,ga a swabe batsamaya ba robalwa robalwa mo nageng mo then ba pateletsa bo rrabone to hell with all this young ladies ba ineelela tu!go tla siama ba nnabagolo ba modimo bana ba lona ke dinoga tu!
kgang ke gore bananyana ba ba maaka ene ba tsile gore tlatsa ka toronko kea go bolelela once u r separated never allow ur girl at your house coz she will help the sought you out ene wena TIPAN O BUA MUSKI HELA
Basadi ba re dira dilo hle..O kare ba kgona go tshuba motho ka metsi, O ka pallwa keng go bopa kgomo ya mmopa..Ngwana wa a ba rutilwe malele a tsogang a sa motsidisi sentle mo botshelong..Basadi ba rata go dirisa bana mo domestic problems..
The young girl is a lier. How can you keep visiting somebody who has raped and impregnated you. Banna batsile go fella ka diprison ka maaka a bananyana ba bta publicity kgotsa go fitha diphoso tsabone.
banna ba malatsi a le bone aba rata bana,ke gone hela gore ba felle ba patelediwa dio tsa di ntseng jaana….ngwana o le ene o tlhabisa kgala