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A 38- year-old man has been charged to court for allegedly beating his 15-year-old daughter, Lubelihle Maphosa to death after he found out, that she had a boyfriend.
The Chronicle reported that Maphosa, a gold panner in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe beat his daughter with a tire-made whip and left her with bleeding cuts all over her body on August 13.
The girl died five days later as a result of the injury. Maphosa then told police that Lubelihle had been attacked by unknown assailants after her death.
Prosecutor Teererai Mahohoma told the court that the accused beat her daughter as a way of reprimanding her for having a boyfriend.
He said: “On August 13 Maphosa beat up his daughter with a tire-made whip several times all over the body as a way of reprimanding her for having a boyfriend. She sustained injuries from the assault and Maphosa concealed what he had done by refusing to take her to the hospital.
“She died on August 18 as a result of injuries sustained during the assault and Maphosa went on to report to the police that his daughter was attacked by unknown assailants while she was on her way home at night in order to conceal the offence. Police carried out investigations and discovered that someone had seen Maphosa assaulting the now deceased which led to his arrest.
Maphosa was not asked to plead when he appeared briefly before Gwanda provincial magistrate.