BAD BAD MOM
MOTHER ACCUSED OF CHILD NEGLECT AND PROSTITUTING A MINOR Pleads guilty to child negligence but denies encouraging prostitution of minor child
Awoman deemed to be a bad mother for failing to provide basic necessities such as food, clothing and healthcare for her child on three occasions in the year 2020 and 2021, has pleaded guilty to all the charges.
State Attorney Bame Mogami told Broadhurst Magistrate Onkarabile Mokone this Tuesday, that the mother had also neglected the child as she had left the
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child in the care of another person without showing any further interest in the child.
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Mogami told the court that investigations have been concluded and the accused will appear again before Broadhurst Magistrate on the 4th of March this year.
Meanwhile the mother is also implicated in the case in which 58-year-old Samuel Selolwane is alleged to have raped a 13 year-old minor in Oodi on the 26th of January. Selolwane, who appeared before Broadhurst Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for status hearing, is charged alongside the victim’s mother and her friend, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minor. He is charged with a single count of rape while the two women are separately charged with corrupting, coercing or encouraging prostitution of a minor child.
The trio pleaded not guilty. Prosecuting officer, Onalenna Madimabe told the court that the investigations are still ongoing and that the first accused Selolwane has refused to cooperate with the police to submit his blood sample. Madimabe said they intend to make an application before the court to force the first accused to submit his blood sample. A medical report presented in court showed that the 13-year-old girl was not only penetrated on her private parts but that there was also anal penetration. Selolwane’s lawyer Dr Obonye Jonas asked for a postponement, saying he only got to learn about the application for blood extraction the morning of the court hearing.
The application for blood extraction will be heard on the 29th of February, two days after a ruling on their bail application at the Gaborone High court.