A 17-YEAR-OLD has narrated to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court how she was defiled and impregnated by two men of Matero township. The teenager told magistrate Chrispin Hanpungani that the two men threatened her with a knife and took turns defiling her. The victim, who is now a mother of a one-year-old child, further told the court that she does not know who the father of her child is. This is a matter in which Micheal Chishala, a 27-year-old Lusaka man, is facing one count of defilement of a child. His co-accused is, however, on the run. When the matter came up for commencement of trial, the victim narrated to the court how the suspects lured her to a certain “grandma’s”...

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