The Sunday Mail
Online Reporter
A self-styled prophet of the Nguwo Tsvuku apostolic sect from Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe has been sentenced to 40 months’ in prison for bedding a 15-year-old.
Madzibaba Simbi – real name Norman Simbi (38) – will serve an effective 36 months after four months were suspended by Mutawatawa magistrate Mr Edwin Marecha on condition of good behaviour.
It was the State’s case that on an unknown date in Nyamukondiwa Village in August 2022, at around 4pm, the complainant, a female juvenile aged 15, was on her way home from the borehole when she met the accused, who proposed love to her and she accepted.
The two became lovers.
During the month of October 2022, the accused person and the complainant met at Yanai Village, where the accused person asked the complainant to have sexual intercourse and she accepted.
The accused and the complainant went at a nearby bush, where they had consensual sexual intercourse once.
They also went on to have consensual sexual intercourse several times on different occasions at the accused person’s homestead after the complainant eloped.
The matter came to light on November 21, 2022 after the complainant’s mother made a report to the police.
