The First Grade Magistrate’s Court in Chiradzulu on Monday convicted and sentenced a  22 year-old man to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a three-year old girl.

The court heard that, the victim’s mother discovered that her daughter had wounds on her private parts when she was bathing her.

Medical results at Chiradzulu District Hospital confirmed that the child had indeed been defiled.

The toddler mentioned the victim Pemphero Kathumba as the one who injured her.

Kathumba was then subsequently arrested and convicted on defilement charges.