By PASSY HAACHIZO –
A FORTY-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka’s Kanyama Township has shocked her husband’s relatives when she told the court that she has been impregnated twice by her nephew.
Theresa Chindele, 40, left her husband Derrick Linyama, 46, of the same location and the Kanyama local court magistrates confused when she broke her silence over her 14-year incestuous activities with her nephew.
This is in a matter where Chindele had sued Linyama for divorce because of his failure to satisfy her each time they had sex.
Chindele said she was sexually starved by Linyama who only demanded his conjugal rights on intervals and accused him of failing to impregnate her.
She admitted having sex with her nephew and that this had resulted in two pregnancies with the second one being in 2001.
“My husband’s relatives wanted to organise his relative or his brother to father children with me but it was too late because my nephew had already impregnated me. My husband was aware about this arrangement, we decided to keep it a top secret until today,” she said.
In defence Linyama admitted having married his wife in 1993 and that he found her with her nephew’s pregnancy but that the child died later.
Linyama testified how his wife was promiscuous to an extent of bearing children with the son to one of her sisters.
“In 2001, I went to Livingstone for a visit but when I came back it was disappointing that I found my wife was again carrying her nephew’s pregnancy,” he said.
Linyama said he was unhappy at the fact that he caught his wife committing adultery not only with her nephew but also with other men with the latest incident having happened recently,” he said.
In passing judgment, Kanyama local court senior magistrates Daniel Phiri and Ackim Phiri annulled the marriage without any compensation to either party.