Rape Victim Pleads With Magistrate To Drop All Charges Against Attacker ''I Am Now In Love With Him'' She Said

Talent Zvenyika, of Featherstone, a 22-year old rape victim in Zimbabwe made a jaw dropping request of the Magistrate hearing her rape case saying she wants the case dropped because she is now in love with her attacker. She also told the court she has been in a sexual relationship with the accused, one William Chiocha 38. 

She was allegedly raped on 2 occasion in 2016 but Magistrate Fadzai Mutombeni  had no choice but to withdraw the case after the plea. Zvenyika claimed that after the rape incidents, she had fallen in love with the alleged rapist as they had enjoyed consensual sexual intercourse on several other occasions and they had asked each other for forgiveness.

She said:

“I am not the one who reported the case to the police. Although I did not consent on the first and second times, we later on indulged in consensual sexual intercourse on several other instances after we asked each other for forgiveness for previous cases. We are now in love and therefore the case can be withdrawn,” Zvenyika told the court.