Couple get 20 years for child rape

A couple in the Zambezi Region have been sentenced to jail for raping a minor in 2007.
The Katima Mulilo Regional Court last week sentenced Mbumbo Mkelenge Maanda and his wife, Joreen Samalopa, to 20 years’ imprisonment each for raping an 11-year-old girl at Sampingo Village in the Sachona area.
Magistrate Willem Kasitome sentenced the couple to ten years each on the two counts of rape. Maanda and Samalopa were aged 26 and 36 when they committed the crime in May 2007.
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