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UNCLE ALLEGEDLY RAPES NIECES, THREATENS

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LUVE – Muti threats have kept two siblings silent about sexual abuse that has been happening to them for up to seven years.
The two girls aged, 10 and 14 years, are now doing Grade 6 and Form 1 at schools situated in their home area.


Their plight was uncovered in two phases; first being the elder one, *Linda, whose case was reported to the police last week.
At the beginning of the week the two girls’ parents had to go back to the police to report the second case involving the younger girl, *Xolile.
The suspect in both cases is the girls’ 36-year-old uncle who is currently in police custody.


Narrating the ordeal the girls’ mother said the family was approached by a gardener who works in one of the neighboring homesteads. he narrated how he had caught the uncle locked inside one of the houses with Linda.


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“We were shocked when he told us that Linda jumped out through a window after he forced entry into the locked house. He said he also confronted the uncle about this and threatened to report what he had done,” she said.


The mother said on the following day a local community police member, identified as Jabulani Dlamini, paid them a visit and asked that the two girls joined the meeting. “He told us that he had received a report that the elder girl had been caught with her uncle in a house where they had locked themselves in. However, the girls denied this and said they had gone there only to collect maize,” she said.


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The woman was in the company of two female relatives who assisted her in narrating the story as they had been part of it since it was unfolded. The Swazi News learnt that Linda eventually confessed to have had sexual intercourse with her uncle the previous day and further disclosed that this had been happening ever since she was seven years old.

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