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A man accused of raping his biological daughter for three years last appeared before the trial in the High Court of Windhoek, where he must be tried.
At a preliminary hearing before judge Christie Liebenberg yesterday, the accused informed the judge that the legal aid director had told him that the defense lawyer, Mbanga Siyomunji, had been assigned to represent him at his trial. Siyyomunji was not present in court, the case was postponed until February 14 to allow the holding of a new preliminary hearing.
The accused, aged 49, whose name is retained to protect the identity of the complainant, must be prosecuted for three counts of rape, namely incest, three counts of child trafficking and two counts of aggression for assault. threat.
The biological daughter of the accused is the plaintiff for all charges.
In the indictment in which the state states the charges against the man, he was allegedly raped several times between December 2009, when she was 15 years old, and October 2012, when she had reached the age of 15 years. 18
The state states that the first incidents of rape occurred in December 2009, during the camping holidays that the accused and his daughter spent on the coast. At this point, the girl was living with her father.
The state also claims that the man committed the crime of child trafficking by taking him to Angola in January 2010 with the aim of sexually exploiting him.
According to the prosecution, he continued to commit sexual acts with his daughter in Angola in 2010, and in December 2010, when he and his daughter went to Namibia, he allegedly raped her again. various times in Windhoek.
In January 2011, and also in January 2012, the accused again convicted of child trafficking by taking his daughter with him to Angola to exploit him sexually, but the 39; State also accuses.
In June 2011, while they were in Namibia for a visit, he reportedly threatened to assault and kill his daughter if she told him what he had done to her.
The prosecution further alleges that the accused continued to rape his daughter on several occasions in Oshikango in October 2012.
The complainant then left her father and went to Windhoek, where he followed her and, in January 2013, again threatened her with murder if she denounced her assaults. to anyone, according to the prosecution. However, she eventually reported her father's alleged acts to one of her aunts.
The accused was arrested in late January 2013. He spent about a year and a half in detention before receiving a bail of 25,000 Namibian dollars in July 2014.
Released on bail, he was arrested for armed robbery in October 2015. He has been held since then.
The charges in the rape case were provisionally withdrawn in August 2016, while the results of the DNA tests conducted as part of the investigation into the case were expected.
The charges were relaunched last October, when the man was summoned to the Windhoek Police Court to have his case referred to the High Court.
State attorney, Palmer Kumalo, represented the state at the preliminary hearing held yesterday.
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