Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
An inquisitive mother gave away her 32-year-old son after she intercepted pornographic material in his cellphone and handed it over to the police for investigations.The son, Martin George Blair (32), was reportedly sodomising their tenant’s eight-year-old son and recording the trysts.
Blair’s phone also had a clip of his friend sodomising another juvenile. Blair, who lives in Highlands, Harare, yesterday appeared in court before magistrate Mr Douglas Chikwekwe charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, production and dissemination of undesirable pictures and possession of prohibited articles.
Mr Chikwewe remanded him in custody to January 30 after the State, led by Miss Sharon Mashavira, applied to have Blair examined by two medical doctors in,terms of Section 26 of the Mental Health Act.
His alleged accomplice (name not supplied) was still at large. Mr Patrick Jonhera of Wintertons Legal Practitioners appeared on his behalf.
According to the State, sometime last year, the Grade Three pupil was alone in the house when Blair approached him. Blair ordered the juvenile to follow him to his bedroom and without suspecting anything untoward, the boy complied.
Upon entering his bedroom, it is alleged Blair suddenly grabbed the boy and removed his clothes. Blair, the court heard, started caressing the boy and fondling his privates.
He forced the boy to suck his manhood and he also did the same on the boy, it is alleged. According to the State, Blair went on to sodomise the boy while recording the act using his Samsung Galaxy phone.
The helpless boy screamed for help but no one came to his rescue. The juvenile did not report the matter to anyone as he feared that his parents would beat him up.
Blair took it as a God-sent and continued sexually abusing the boy on different occasions and again he would record the trysts.
The abuse came to light when Blair’s mother, Evelyn, and his sister discovered some pornographic videos in which Blair and his alleged accomplice were indecently assaulting two juveniles.
The phone also contained pictures of several naked men. Blair’s mother took the phone to the police who arrested Blair. The police interrogated the eight-year-old boy who spilled the beans and told the police that Blair last sodomised him in January this year.
The boy, however, said that he did not know the other juvenile who was being sexually abused by Blair’s accomplice. Blair, it is further alleged, revealed to the police that the other man in the video was his friend and that the other juvenile was from Mutoko.
Attempts by the police to locate the other juvenile were in vain.