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A man was being held in prison without bail after he was caught having sex with his underage niece.
A family was in shock when they found out that a man of the Queens Park neighborhood in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was being intimate with his 15-year-old niece.
Angry family members called police to report the uncle.
The court heard that the two were caught with their pants down, and were being intimate in a bedroom of a family member's home.
Their names cannot be published because the girl is a minor. The pair was accused of sleeping together a number of times in the past 7 months.
Prosecutor Mazwi Goto told the court that the man proposed love to his niece and she consented.
They are both facing charges of incest.
The matter came to light when a relative noticed unusual behavior between the two and became suspicious.
“The relative kept a close eye on the two and caught them in the act before raising the alarm to other family members," Goto said.
After a police investigation, both the girl and her uncle were arrested.
The man was denied bail and was remanded into custody.
The girl, because of her age, was released into the custody of a relative in th Makokoba suburb.