Reports say Mufaro Mukonowatsauka lured the youngster, a neighbour to become her second wife by giving her cooking oil, sugar, salt and body lotion, with the promise to give her more.

She is reported to have helped her husband, Rodgers Manera to sexually abuse the teenager by deliberately locking up the two in the room,

While her husband has been charged with rape, she is facing charges relating to abetment of the crime.

When the errant couple from Sadomba village appeared before Rusape regional magistrate’s court presided over by Livingstone Chipadza, they pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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The Rusape district prosecutor, Tirivanhu Mutyasira is quoted as having told the court that:

“The accused persons are husband and wife and neighbours to the complainant. The complainant’s grandmother sent her to the accused persons’ homestead to collect cooking oil. The complainant found both the accused persons at home.

“Mukonowatsauka then started persuading the complainant to become her husband’s second wife and promised to give her cooking oil, sugar, salt, and body lotion if she accepts her proposal.

"The complainant agreed with Mukonowatsauka’s proposal and on October 14, 2015 visited the accused person’s homestead and found both at home. At that instance, Mukonowatsauka took a bucket to fetch water. She closed and locked the door from outside with Manera and the victim inside the room.”

Apparently, it was during that period when Mukonowatsauka locked the victim and her husband up in the room that the sexual assault happened.

While some other women are up in arms against their husbands and their side chicks, just because they want to own his full attention, it is unclear why Mukonowatsauka is rather the one wooing another female for her husband.