Defiler Gets 10 Years Custodial Sentence
The Phalombe First Grade Magistrate’s Court has slapped a 43-year-old man with a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for defiling an under-16 girl.
State Prosecutor Sub Inspector Shadreck Wisiki told the court that the convict, Kiyason Sayenda, committed the offence between 2012 and June, 2020.
Sub Inspector Wisiki said the girl is the step daughter to the convict. The ordeal was discovered since the girl was impregnated, said Wisiki.
Sayenda pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement, a development which prompted the state to parade two witnesses.
In his mitigation, the convict asked for lenient sentence since, claiming that he is the first offender and has a family to take care of.
The Phalombe First Grade Magistrateâs Court has slapped a 43-year-old man with a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for defiling an under-16 girl.
State Prosecutor Sub Inspector Shadreck Wisiki told the court that the convict, Kiyason Sayenda, committed the offence between 2012 and June, 2020.
Sub Inspector Wisiki said the girl is the step daughter to the convict.
“The ordeal was discovered since the girl was impregnated,” said Wisiki.
Sayenda pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement, a development which prompted the state to parade two witnesses.
In his mitigation, the convict asked for lenient sentence since, claiming that he is the first offender and has a family to take care of.