Gobabis man sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for rape of minor cousin

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 19 NOV (NAMPA) – A Gobabis resident convicted of raping his 15-year-old cousin in 2016 was on Wednesday sentenced to 18 years in prison in the Gobabis Magistrate’s Court.
In a judgment availed to Nampa on Thursday, Omaheke Regional Magistrate Ileni Velikoshi described the acts of the 37-year-old man who broke into the victim’s house in the early morning of 18 August 2016 and raped her in front of her six younger siblings as heinous, saying it not only involved physical abuse of a non-consent ...