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COP ASSAULTS, FRACTURES STEPDAUGHTER’S ARM

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MANZINI – A police officer based in Mbabane was granted a partly suspended sentence by the court after he was arrested for assaulting his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

Mbongiseni Talos Thwala (39) of Elulakeni was arrested and charged for contravening the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence (SODV) Act in that he assaulted the 13-year-old daughter of his lover, when he kicked, slapped and pushed her onto a concrete floor. This, Thwala did on January 14, 2021 near Matsapha. After the incident, a medical report suggested that due to the assault, *Simmy suffered a fracture on her left arm. According to evidence submitted by Simmy before Matsapha Magistrate Lucia Lukhele yesterday, the minor was visiting her mother at the Matsapha Police Camp, where she (mother) resides with Thwala.

Errands

She narrated that after her mother left the house to run errands in town, she was left home alone with Thwala, when, at about 6:30pm, Thwala left the house to answer a phone call outside. Simmy informed the court that as she was standing by the front door, Thwala violently pushed her aside so that he could go out and answer his cellphone. When the call was concluded, Simmy said she took the opportunity to address Thwala about the ill-treatment she received from him on a frequent basis, to which he ignored her. She stated that even after she threatened to report his behaviour to her biological father and uncles, Thwala still, did not answer any of her questions, let alone address the minor concerns. However, after about 10 minutes, Simmy’s mother was said to have arrived at the house and shockingly, while her mother watched helplessly, Thwala started assaulting the minor by kicking her and slapping her on her face.

To the shock of Simmy and her mother, Thwala was said to have taken his assault to another level when he suddenly manhandled the minor, picked her up and dropped her on a concrete floor of the house. Simmy, who at this point looked to her mother to help her, had to resorted to raising the alarm, after seeing that her mother was frozen in shock, and was not making any attempts to assist her. “I had no choice but to escape from Thwala’s wrath, so I fled the house and requested assistance from officers, who were worried about me. They assisted me by calling my father, who arrived hastily to take me to the police station and later, the hospital,” she relayed.

Assistance

When asked why her mother did not render assistance to her, Simmy said she had, in fact, questioned her mother about that. But, the response she received was not what she expected.

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