By SAM PHIRI –
A FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD teacher has gone into hiding after raping two of his biological daughters and defiling one whom he infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
His family members, who broke the shocking news to the Sunday Times, said a manhunt had been launched for the fugitive father who could not be reached on phone.
According to a member of the family who preferred anonymity, her older brother raped and defiled his daughters on different occasions, with the youngest being last.
She said the brother divorced his first wife, the mother of the children, and married another woman with whom he had three children, one boy and two girls.
The girls’ father, who was based in Central Province, used to invite them separately every holiday and threatened that he would kill them if they revealed the ordeal.
“Our brother separated with his first wife, the mother of these children, who was keeping them then, so he would call them one by one to get school fees and in the process rape them in his house,” she said.
She said amid sobs that the ordeal was revealed by the 17-year-old daughter who is the youngest after she developed sores on her private parts.
She said the three girls had been so traumatised that they were declining to get back to school.
“We are ashamed as a family and we are looking for this man who has even changed his numbers. How can you surely sleep with your biological children… what kind of demon is that ?” she said.