Teen rapist successfully challenges incarceration

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who was serving a five-year imprisonment term for raping a four-year-old minor has been given a warrant of liberation by the High Court due to the unqualification of sentence to the teenager.

According to the law, a 14-year-old and below person cannot be given an effective jail term of up to five years.

The boy, who was not named for legal reasons, sought a review of his five-year effective prison term before Chinhoyi High Court judges Justices Bachi Muzawazi and Philda Muzofa.

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