A 20-year-old man identified as Victor Time has been sentenced by Machinga First Grade Magistrate Court to serve 6-years in prison with hard labour for abducting and defiling a 12-year-old girl.
The accused had detained the young girl in his house in Ntaja for three days and defiled her while she was there.
Police Prosecutor, Sub Inspector Kalawa told the court sitting at Ntaja Trading Centre in the district that the accused person met the school girl at Nsanama Trading Center where he enticed her to follow him to his house.
Her mother alerted her friends that her daughter had not come back from the Trading Centre where she was sent on errands. They reported the matter to police. The girl was later found in the house of the man after three days.
Time was later arrested and taken to court by the police where he pleaded guilty to the offences of abducting and defiling a girl.
Police Prosecutor Kalawa asked the court to give Time a stiffer punishment to deter would be offenders since the girl was greatly traumatized.
In mitigation, Time asked the court for leniency saying his grandparents count on him for support.
Passing sentence, First Grade Magistrate Jones Masula condemned Time’s behavior.
He said the offences he committed were serious offences that required stiffer punishment.
