A 29-year-old man identified as Gift Banda famously known as Gibi of Muliya Village, Traditional Authority Juma in Mulanje District is police custody at Lingadzi for allegedly having sexual intercourse with an 11-year-old boy at Kauma location.

Assistant Public Relations Officer for the Station Constable Glory Kondowe Ngwira has confirmed of Gibi’s arrest indicating that he will be taken to court to answer applicable charges.

According to Ngwira, on the said date at around 19:00 hours, the suspect requested the boy to assist him in carrying a plastic bag that was full of heavy items to his house.

“However, when they both entered into the house, the suspect grabbed the boy and started having sexual intercourse with him using unnatural sexual order,” Kumwenda said.

Gibi the suspect threatened to kill the boy if he revealed his ordeal to his parents and defiled the boy for two separate days.

But due to the pain tje victim started to feel, he was forced to disclose the situation to his mother and when she checked him to the anal area, the boy’s mother discovered that he sustained bruises.