Man fined K5,000 for ‘damage’

MARY PHIRI writes A 40-year-old woman in Ndola has dragged a 27-year-old man to court for deflowering her daughter. The court has since fined the man K5,000 to be paid in monthly instalments to the mother of the daughter in question. Josephine Bole sued John Mulenga of Chipuluksu Township for damaging and impregnating her 20-years-old daughter. Ms Bole told the court that Mulenga had impregnated her daughter and every time they called for a meeting he never showed up. The case came before chipulukusu local court Magistrate Juliet Bwalya sitting with Nsama Nsofu and Ntembe Sakala. She said her daughter was now five months pregnant, and Mulengawas going around telling people that she was just after his money and he denied the claim. Ms Bole told the court that she wanted justice, stating that her daughter was not the only one the man had impregnated. “I found out recently that three more women are after him for impregnating their daughters, our children are just victims of this man,” she lamented. In his statement, Mulenga told the court that he had slept with the girl but he was not too sure if the pregnancy was his adding that she used to sleep with his friend too. He told the court that it all started when she invited him to her church for an overnight prayer meeting and that after this he later took her to his friend’s house and had sex with her with her full consent. “If the pregnancy is less than five months then it’s not mine, I expect her to be seven months pregnant, I know very well the time I slept with her, ” he said. Mulenga told the court that he was a married man and did not want anything to interfere with his marriage and complained that Ms Bole had a habit of going to his house to ask for him. And in her testimony, Helen Bole told the court that she slept with him three times and he always used to call her and each time they met they had sex. Helen said when she told him she was pregnant, he told her that he was not responsible of the child she was carrying. In judgment, the court ordered Mulenga to compensate Ms Bole K5,000 in monthly instalments of K300 and ordered him to start buying clothes for the baby. The Sun