
The mother’s name is on her court papers but The Associated Press has decided not to publish it to avoid her daughter being identified. Her daughter is traumatized all over again. She also said that she had seen some of the social media posts with the smiling face of the man who raped her daughter. “He makes sure that my daughter hears that it’s him and that there is nothing she can do about it,” the mother said in her court papers. He is even walking around boasting about his freedom, the mother said. In court papers, the victim’s mother said they are living in fear now that Makaza is back, the nightmare worsened by the fact that he is close by.

“What this shows about our society is that we have lost our moral compass when we consider cases of sexual violence against young girls as a joke.”Īfter his release, a television crew also followed Makaza back to his home village - where his victim, who is now 15, still lives - and interviewed him and recorded him saying “life is sweet” and punching the air in delight.

“It’s troubling that as a society, we take this as a joke,” said Tendai Mbofana, director at the Zimbabwe Network for Social Justice nongovernmental organization.
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