Girl 11, defiled, infected with HIV

AN Eleven year old girl yesterday narrated how an 82 year old man defiled her on several occasions and allegedly infected her with HIV/AIDS.   This is in the case in which Joel Chileshe, unemployed of KW03 Kawama Township, is charged with defilement after he allegedly had carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of sixteen on October 21, last year.   The girl, a grade four pupil, told magistrate Ruth Kapulo that Chileshe had sex with her on several occasions and would sometimes give her biscuits after the act.   She narrated that on October 21, last year, Chileshe who was in the company of his friend went to her place to buy beer and when they were informed that beer had ran out, he  started fondling her breasts.   The girl explained that her young sister started crying upon seeing what Chileshe was doing to her and that was how her father who was in the house called her inside the house.   She said the following day, Chileshe went back to her place, held her by the hand, and took her to his house, where he undressed her, held her legs and defiled her.   The girl told the court that after the act, she noticed some discharge from her private parts which Chileshe wiped with a cloth.   “ The accused person held my legs when having sex with me and when I told him that it was painful, he said he was going to be gentle and after he finished he took a cloth to wipe the discharge that was coming from my private parts,” she told the court.   The girl further told the court that for one week, Chileshe picked her from school on his bicycle and took her to his house where he would fond her breasts, lick her private parts and later defile her.   She said she usually experienced abdominal pains and that the time the accused person took her to his house, his wife was in Wusakile Township because she was sick.   The girl said after some time she told her brother what Chileshe was doing to her and later her mother was also informed about it and slapped her.   In cross examination by Chileshe, the girl said the accused person went to pick her up from school on several occasions, defiled her and would later escort her half way the road.   When Chileshe persistently asked the girl if the mother had not sent her and her sibling to take beer to him, the girl broke down and said it was because of him that she was now on HIV/AIDS treatment.   She told the court that Chileshe used to defile her young sister as well and denied that she was in the habit of having sex with other men.   The matter comes up for continued hearing on February 29.