WOMEN rapists are “fast overtaking men”, police chief Augustine Chihuri said Friday.
“We now have a few men going to the police stations reporting such cases. Women seem to be fast overtaking men,” the Police Commissioner General said, speaking two days after an eighth man reported being raped by women who had offered him a lift.
“I don’t know why, and maybe as time goes on we will know why.”
Under Zimbabwean law, the charge of rape applies only to women victims, and Chihuri says increasing sexual attacks by women on men are “abominable and weird”.
Chihuri said: "Let me warn all social miscreants who have taken it upon themselves to soil the country’s social fabric, cultural norms and values by perpetrating abominable and weird activities of women sexually molesting men, sometimes at gunpoint and those that have hogged the lime light by engaging in shocking incestuous relations, to stop the practices forthwith.
"Those found on the wrong side of the law will be professionally dealt with accordingly without fear or favour.”
Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said following the latest attack on a hitchhiker from Bulawayo that they believed the attacks were for ritual purposes.
The attacks, police say, often involve women giving a male victim a lift, then plying them with an aphrodisiac – sometimes making them watch porn videos – before forcing the victims to have sex with them.