A Zimbabwean woman employed as a domestic servant at a house in Beit Bridge and who was facing allegations of indecently assaulting her employer´s 15-year-old boy, had every reason to smile when she was found not guilty and acquitted at the close of the state’s case.

Tafara Molosi (25) had pleaded not guilty to the charge and was found not guilty and acquitted by a local magistrate, Mrs Fadzai Mthombeni on Monday. The magistrate said the reason for Molosi´s acquittal would follow later.

It was Molosi’s defence that the complainant was just framing her because there was bad blood between them.

The state’s case, presented by Mr Khumbulani Ndlovu, was that on August 1, at about 02:00, the boy was asleep in his bedroom. The state also alleged that Molosi had sneaked into the boy’s bedroom, brandishing a bloodstained knife and a doll. The state alleged that she got hold of the complainant by the neck and went on to caress him all over his body.

The state sought to prove that Molosi had pulled her skirt upwards and gone on top of the boy and forced him to be intimate with her. After the incident, the state claimed that she threatened the boy with death if ever he reported the incident to anybody.