THE Livingstone High Court has sentenced a 64-year-old Choma man to 35 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling and infecting a 13-year-old girl with gonorrhea. Livingstone High Court Judge Mbile Wina has wondered what type of society Zambians are living in where a girl child is never safe in her own home from sexual predators such as the convict, Teddy Tembo Hamose. Hamose was arrested on May 31, 2024, after he committed the offence in Choma on May 27, 2024. Delivering judgement recently, Justice Wina said she was satisfied with the lower court’s conviction of Hamose on October 30, 2024 for the offence of defilement, contrary to Section 138 (1) of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws...

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