{"id":188439,"date":"2025-01-12T02:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T00:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-jailed-15-years-for-raping-8-year-old\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T00:28:37","slug":"zimbabwe-man-jailed-15-years-for-raping-8-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-man-jailed-15-years-for-raping-8-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Man Jailed 15 Years for Raping 8-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Prosper Dembedza \u2014 The 68-year-old rapist who lured an eight-year-old girl into his Dzivarasekwa house and abused her, Moses Jimu, has been jailed for 15 years. The judgment was handed down by Harare regional magistrate Ms Loice Mukunyadze, following a trial that found Jimu guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Throughout the trial, Jimu denied the charges, but the evidence, including the medical report, against him proved insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">After considering State prosecutor Mrs Shambadzeni Fungura&#8217;s submissions, the court&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501100487.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosper Dembedza \u2014 The 68-year-old rapist who lured an eight-year-old girl into his Dzivarasekwa house and abused her, Moses Jimu, has been jailed for 15 years. The judgment was handed down by Harare regional magistrate Ms Loice Mukunyadze, following a trial that found Jimu guilty. Throughout the trial, Jimu denied the charges, but the evidence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[29093,258,256,5696,6867,257,1601,254,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-8yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jailed","tag-man","tag-news","tag-raping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}