A 17 year-old boy has been arrested for reportedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy and ordering eight other boys to follow suit on several occasions since 2009.
Police said the suspect from Mbare, Zimbabwe also faces charges of sodomising three other boys, a 16-year-old and two aged 14.
The three were sodomised at the same time as the 12-year-old.
The eight boys, who are aged between eight and 16, were yesterday summoned to Stodart Police Station to give statements in connection with the case.
Acting Harare provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Tarirai Dube confirmed the case yesterday.
She said sometime in 2009, the suspect saw four boys, including the 12-year-old who was later sodomised by eight others, at around 6pm warming themselves at a fire place near his father’s firewood business and called them.
He is alleged to have taken them into a room where he sodomised them.
The suspect gave US$3 to the 16-year-old and R5 each to the other three boys before releasing them.
It is alleged that sometime in December last year, the suspect called the 16-year-old while he was playing soccer before ordering him to sodomise the 12-year-old victim.
- Herald
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