Details of how a 25 year old man lurer a teenager into having gay relations emerged in court where he is being charged with indecent assault.
Tinotenda Chibwe appeared before magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa, who remanded him in custody to his trial date on October 21, H Metro reports.
Asked by the magistrate what was his relationship with the complainant, who is 17, Chibwe said he was in a homosœxual relationship with him.
The court heard that in January, the complainant joined a gay WhatsApp group platform code named ‘Private Lounge.’
It has more than one thousand participants.
He received the group link from an unknown new phone number.
The boy introduced himself as a new member of the group.
Chibwe, who was already a member of this WhatsApp group, contacted the complainant proposing a gay relationship.
The complainant turned down Chibwe’s request but agreed to be friends with him.
The two agreed to meet in May and they met at Machipisa Shopping Centre in Highfield.
Chibwe lured the boy to his house and they started drinking while chatting.
Chibwe forced himself on the boy.
In August, the boy’s father saw messages in his cellphone between his son and another man.
However the phone broke before he had gathered any information.
Last month, the boy used his mother’s phone to contact Chibwe, who invited him to his home.
The boy refused and Chibwe started using another number to lure the boy.
The mother informed her husband.
The boy then told his father that he had been sœxually abused.
