Paedophile caught abusing girl hangs self

Paedophile caught abusing girl hangs self

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A SHAMED paedophile strung himself to a tree branch after he was caught red-handed sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl, reports said Friday.

Police have named the man as 47-year-old Davison Chori from Gokwe communal lands in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province.

Police spokesman Andrew Phiri told the official Herald newspaper that evil Chori was disturbed by one Nguni Saidi who found him being intimate with the 13-year-old girl at Copper Queen Mine on Tuesday this week.

Chori fled the scene and was later found handing from a tree branch, dead.

Police are not looking for anyone else over his death, Phiri said.

Child rape is prevalent in Zimbabwe and was up 42 percent in 2006, according to the United Nations' child agency, UNICEF.

UNICEF said the number of cases of rape of minors reported to police surged from 2,192 in 2003 to 3,112 in 2006. Many other cases likely went unreported in a climate of secrecy and denial, it said.
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