Neno First Grade Magistrate Magret Khobiri has sentenced a 38 year old man, Themba Juliano to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a 11 year old girl.

Neno police prosecutor, sub-inspector Golden Kakoma has confirmed of the development in an interview with the press.

According to Kakoma, the girl was defiled twice in 2020, and the suspect fled to Mozambique before being apprehended by a community policing forum on May 28, 2022.

Magistrate Khobiri said, the sentence has been metted out to deter would be offenders and his file has since been sent to the High Court to enhance the sentence.