{"id":74370,"date":"2019-02-13T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74370"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:29:53","slug":"10-year-jail-term-for-kabaza-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/10-year-jail-term-for-kabaza-man\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year jail term for kabaza man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalamula: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74374\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/victimised-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/victimised-child-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/victimised-child-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/victimised-child.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FLASHBACK\u2014The mother holds her victimised daughter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nkukula Magistrate Court in Lilongwe on Monday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour Dickson Kamwendo, 28, for defiling a 10-year-old disabled girl at Area 49 in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kamwendo was arrested on January 31 2019 after being caught defiling the standard two learner in one of the unfinished buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of the victim said they hired the convict in 2017 to be transporting the girl to and from school.<\/p>\n<p>Kanengo Police deputy spokesperson, Salomy Zgambo Chibwana, said police prosecutor Madalitso Jere asked for stiff punishment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe parents trusted him with their child but he took advantage of her disability and defiled her,\u201d<\/em> Chibwana said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In mitigation, Kamwendo pleaded with the court for mercy as he is a bread winner for his family.<\/p>\n<p>However, First Grade Magistrate Cecilia Onsewa said the convict deserved stiff punishment to deter would-be offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Kamwendo is from Mbemba Village, Traditional Authority Phambala, in Ntcheu District. <em>The Sunday Times <\/em>published the story over the disabled girl\u2019s order over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: The Nkukula Magistrate Court in Lilongwe on Monday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour Dickson Kamwendo, 28, for defiling a 10-year-old disabled girl at Area 49 in the capital. Kamwendo was arrested on January 31 2019 after being caught defiling the standard two learner in one of the unfinished buildings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74375,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370\/revisions\/74375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}